Canon FS 3.6 manual Glossary, Bit Grayscale Image, Bit Color Image, MM Film, IX240 Film

Appendices

Glossary

8-Bit Grayscale Image

An 8-bit image type utilizing only the brightness data from an image, which is then expressed in black, white and 256 shades of gray.

12-Bit Grayscale Image

An 12-bit image type utilizing only the brightness data from an image, which is then expressed in black, white and 4096 shades of gray.

24-Bit Color Image

Images scanned as red, green and blue light and reproduced in gradients of 256 tones per color (8-bit). A color image can be expressed in up to 16.7 million color tones (256 x 256 x 256).

35 MM Film

A widely used standard film format. There are several types of film using this format, including color and monochrome, which also come as a negative or positive film. Of these, color negatives are the most commonly used.

36-Bit Color Image

Images scanned as red, green and blue light and reproduced in gradients of 4096 tones per color (12-bit). A color image can be expressed in up to 68.7 billion color tones (4096 x 4096 x 4096). On a computer display no difference can be discerned between 24-bit and 36-bit color.

IX240

A new film system and format that is compact and easy to use. This system permits the automatic imprinting of such information as the shooting date/ time and exposure setting and incorporates functions that make it easy to display images on computers and TVs.

IX240 Film

IX240 film is a format that is smaller than 35 mm film. The film is 24 mm wide and images are 17 x 30 mm. IX240 negative films are generally developed and returned to the photographer in the original film cartridge.

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