Any Advantages to convert Canon 5D raw from 8bit to 16?

My digital camera (Canon 5D) shoots at 8bit in raw. I'm wondering if there is an advantage to converting that to 16 bits when I'm in Adobe raw and moving it to photoshop? For example if I'm doing things like burning and dodging etc will the extra bits mean smoother gradations or is that because my original is 8bits, bumping it to 16 won't make a difference? Any thoughts? Thanks, Lucian

Something I didn't see really well stated here:
YOU select the bit depth and color space of the converted output (and the settings become the defaults for the next conversion).
These settings have essentially NOTHING to do with the camera's capabilities, they have EVERYTHING to do with what you're going to use the converted output for.
Reason:
You select this depth based on what you may be planning to do with the image. If you like what you see in the conversion and you're immediately going to save the image as a JPEG with no further editing, you have no real reason to convert to anything other then sRGB and 8 bit depth.
If, however, you're going to edit the thing for hours you should consider converting it to 16 bit color depth.
Lastly, Camera Raw tends to clip highlights and blacks when converted into anything but ProPhoto RGB (the profile with the widest gamut), so if you do have very bright or dark subject material, you might want to choose ProPhoto RGB. This "feature" (the clipping when other profiles are used) is a pet peeve of mine and I plan to make a separate thread about it.
-Noel

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