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NikonD800 question

L Gebhardt

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The extra two bits are just padding (set to 0 or 1). The TIFF and PSD don't support intermediate values between 8 and 16 for color depth.

As far as a monochrome image, the three 14bit channels are being combined to give you a single channel. I haven't done the math to see it this can be expected to bully use the 16bits available in a TIFF or PSD channel.

If you use JPG it will all be compressed down to 8bits per channel.