difference between image depth and channels

Question

I am trying to learn opencv but its very confusing. Can someone know the difference between imagedepth and the no. of channels in an image. Suppose the image depth is 8 and

Answer 1

According to OpenCV documentation, in OpenCV depth is defined as the bit-depth of an individual channel. So if you have 8 bit depth and 3 channels, it means you have 24 bits per image pixel