Posted by Mark & Mary Ann Weiss on 07/18/07 04:59

> >I suspect that the color palette of HDV is less than 24 bit, because at
> >times, the picture shows striated bands of color, like a GIF image when
too
> >many diverse colors are present. Ironically, the noisy imagers in this
> >camera should 'dither' the image and eliminate the banding, but it does
not.
>
> That is caused by the high compression too.
>
> -m-

True. I can simulate the same effect by taking a TIFF image in PhotoShop and
saving as JPEG with a compression quality of 1.



Best Regards,

Mark A. Weiss, P.E.
www.mwcomms.com
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