On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Pascal de Bruijn <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Tobias Ellinghaus <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, 7. März 2013, 10:24:23 schrub Rob Z. Smith:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> it seems
>>> factually incorrect to describe a raw file as a tif.
>>
>> The sad truth is that it's actually correct. At least for most RAW formats. 
>> :(
>
> Not quite... RAW files are TIFF _based_... but they aren't TIFF
> compliant by themselves as far as I'm aware... which is probably why
> nobody calls them .TIF anymore.

even worse there seems to be some overlap wrt magic bytes at the
beginning of the files, falsely identifying themselves as tiff (and
later on diverging). we have exception rules for other raw files in
the magic detection already, maybe that's what this camera needs, too.

any other changes to the way tif are handled will probably break just
about everything. tif is a minefield and beyond fixing. hope people
will stop using it :(

j.

>
> Regards,
> Pascal de Bruijn
>
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