Canon's CanoScan FS4000

Version 1.2, Page 4, ©2001 by Dale Cotton, all rights reserved

Colour and Tonal Gradations, continued

Figures 6 and 7 are crops shown at 100% resolution from the centres of Figures 4 and 5:

Figure 6. Normal exposure crop Figure 7. +2 exposure crop

Figure 6. Normal exposure crop vs. Figure 7. +2 exposure crop.

However, as anyone who does image editing knows, a great deal of detail can lurk inside a 48-bit image that can be retrieved with a suitable change in its brightness curve:

Figure 8. Normal exposure with brighness adjustment Figure 9. +2 exposure with brighness adjustment

Figure 8. Normal exposure crop vs. Figure 9. +2 exposure crop - both with (extreme) brightness adjustments applied.

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