Hi everyone!

I just registered here because I have a huge question regarding the Howtek 4500 and its color depth.

I have the chance to buy this scanner, and we did some scans on it. When I enter Photoshop and add a simple levels layer, the histogram becomes like a hair comb (like this: https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qim...96c4db88de8-lq). This is common with the 8-bit files, but we have scanned the file with Silverfast and 48-bits HDR mode.

I have read that the color depth is 12-bits. Maybe this is the cause? If we scan with another software, will the issue solve? If somebody here is using this scanner, please send me an actual scan to check it on Photoshop it will be so helpful to me :-)

Thanks a lot, and nice to meet everyone!