on.raw.photography

Thank you. That cleared up a lot of things for me.

Yes, there seems to be some confusion around the ADC in the F135(+) model.
I have seen sales brochures stating 16bit and in the Pakon user groups many seem to believe it uses a 12bit ADC.
However, I have the service manual for the F135(+) which ...

Thank you Christoph. That was enlightening. I have some further questions.

First something I have always wondered about:

Why are the Pakon raw files so dark compared to linear tiffs from other scanners?
I thought the histogram represented all of the total values in a file, but something else ...

So I made the accidental discovery that MakeTiff can read and convert Pakon RAW files to linear tiff.

Christoph asked me to make a thread about it here so he could elaborate on it, as it is an undocumented feature.
Anyway this was a great surprise! It seems to work without a hitch and can even ...