30-bit displaying with Krita?

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, LukasT.dev at gmail.com wrote:

> On Wednesday 23 December 2009 16:02:47 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> > > In Krita 2.0.2 on xf86_64 Linux image displaying appears to be limited to
> > > 8-bit per channel even with OpenGL switched on. The source material
> > > is a 16-bit/3-channels gray gradient Tiff file. But the display output
> > > looks like 8-bit. Kritas colour picker shows fine differences on a pixel
> > > level. So loading appears to be correct. However the Krita display showes
> > > lesser differences. Does Krita display its data in OpenGL as
> > > GL_RGB16/GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT?
> > >
> > > Any otheridea why Krita gives only 8-bit output?
> > 
> 
> I did not know about display that has bigger channel size then 8 bit So
> you have 30 bit per channel right?

10 bits -- those displays are beginning to become affordable, for some
values of affordable. 

Boudewijn