[Les Cargill]

wrote:

Are there any meaningful parallels that can be drawn between digital
photography and digital audio?


Nope.

For example, if you take a digital photo with a high-megapixel count,
this means you can enlarge the picture more before you start to see
imperfections.


You can't really do that with audio signals. Audio signals
are either 100% faithful or they're less than that.

So if you record a 24-bit signal just under clipping, does that mean
you can get away with wider level adjustments in the DAW mixing
environment before noticing signal degradation?


You can get away with lower record levels, in order to avoid
clipping ( because the digital noise floor is so low ).


I've formed some analogies:
linearity of audio recorder= lens quality
frequency range of recorder=color accuracy
bit depth of recorder= pixel count

Any truth to that?


Not really.

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Les Cargill