Video file formats and settings can be pretty complicated, and it’s all about trading off file sizes against quality. 8-bit video capture keeps file sizes smaller and is pretty much a universal common ...

Phil Rhodes updates one of the most popular articles we have ever featured on RedShark - 8-bit or 10-bit? The truth may surprise you - and provides a guide to bit depth for 2016. It's been a while ...

Practical applications of two commonly-used terms that are often misunderstood by photographers. When used in imaging, bit depth quantifies the number of discrete colours (hues and tones) that can be ...

Apple's latest 4K and 5K iMacs support a 10-bit graphics driver on OS X El Capitan, allowing for smoother color transitions, according to German website Mac & i. The 10-bit color output enables 1024 ...

Replay: Camera forums are often full of discussion about bit-depth. But what is it, and why do we really need higher bit-depth? Bit depth in cameras used to be simple. There was eight or ten and more ...