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From: padre@dsoft.UUCP (Brian McNett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RAW file conversion
Message-ID: <885@dsoft.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 90 22:00:27 GMT
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Framegrabber can only capture in 4,096 colors, unlike Digi-View and VD-1,
which capture in 16 million. If you took the same Framegrabber image and
saved it as both a RAW and a HAM file, and then converted both to a 256
color GIF file, both GIFs would look almost exactly alike, because RAW
files have the same 12 bit color resolution that HAM pics do.
HAM fringing does not really come into play here- the pictures that have
fringe, the ones with "too many" ranges of color, and too many of them,
would lose most of their color in conversion to a 256 color GIF file
whether they're HAM or not.
Digi-View and VD-1 have true 24 bit color, and they would make much
prettier GIF files.