OK, someone school me. Dynamic Range is the range of intensities which can be recorded by a sensor, such as film. So, when we say slide film has ~5 stops of dynamic range, it can record an intensity of 1 up to 32 on a linear scale. Modern digital sensors and color print film have more dynamic range.

Here's my question, which has the greatest bit-depth (I'm sure there is another, correct term for this concept)? Digital has only about 10-12 bit depth (I think I remember hearing that somewhere). A 16-bit scan, should have 16-bit depth. So here's the question: does film support that bit depth when being scanned? When there are 32-bit scanners, will color slides support 32-bit depth?

Thanks, Jon