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colors are being clipped or the blacks crushed.
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It can encode nearly the whole range of colors detected by the human
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eye, and even encode colors that the eye cannot detect!
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The answer is to do with <em>quantization</em>.
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If you only have 8 bits (256 levels) to encode each channel, then a
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larger range is going to have bigger steps between each value.