with a figure of 180ppi it will effectivly reduce the image right?
The program is showing 180ppi but the monitor effectivly only displays 72ppi so some pixels aren't shown.

25803572,212367235725627877465592 pixels per square inch that's what the camera capture, do the math

yep....
and what do you mean yes... yes 14bit/channel or yes 14bit colour space...
14bit/channel right?

Ah thank you all for making things clear, good I asked the question

I had the same thoughts as isdky but it isn't as worse as I thought it was

Beakynet, you make my head spin now

Yes under PS it says 8bit/channel but a 8bit colour space means something else right. it means that the the whole colour space is build up out of 8bit and not just one channel?
So does Pentax RAW have 14bit colour space or 14bit/channel?

That's nothing





It's a real camera lens, if you don't believe me read the story link

mhmm you're right there, I'm working on a CRT though.
But still for 8bit monitors you will end up with a more accurate photo when working in 16bit. If one 16bit colour is on the border of a 8bit colour it might wel end up after processing as another colour were the colour might still be the same when the photo was converted in 8bit first.

Good it's on the border of usefullness but if you can why not do it?
Everyone is using TIFF for not loosing any image quality but I'm quite sure that most of them are 8bit so you throw away 16128 colours, that seems to me far less usefull... I'm not going anal right now right

Luckely not the ones I'm using and I believe that only the creative filters are greyed out.
All the ones I can think of for polishing up your photo are still there.
- All the noise, blur and sharpen options are there except smart blur.
- lens correction under distort
- emboss, find edges, solarize filters under stylize.
- All the filters under other.
- all layer options.
- all adjusment layers and layer/image adjusments (curves, levels, sturation, etc.)
- all tool works (smudge, dodge, clone, fill, etc.)
- and I'm lucky enough that the noise removal software support 16bit.
I can't say I miss something maybe you do though?

Just add someting to Alan (impotentspider) comment.

It also depends on were the subject is, the closer it is to the fence the closer it is to the focus point.
When the tiger is walking at the rear of the cage you might as well use f/8 but if it's only a meter from the fence f/2.8 might even not be enough. If he's lying against the fence, well then you're simply out of luck.

All the newer Pentax models have 14bit RAW files, since that isn't a standard setting I'm wondering in what bit-depth your working space is, 8bit or 16bit.

I must confessed that I'm only recently using photoshop in a 16bit working space, it just didn't come in mind to work in higher bit depth but I can see the advantage in working in them.
- 8bit only has 256 colours,
- 14bit the one the camera captured has 16384 colours, so it seems to me you're loosing a lot of colours when converting to 8bit
- 16bit has 65536 colours so that's enough to contain all the colours in the RAW file.

I'm no computer expert so am I on the right track or not?