> > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, John Francis wrote: > > > I looked at the Pentax PEF file and noticed that it starts out > > > directly with what looked like EXIF information. To see if this > > > is true I wrote this simple perl script: . . . > > > > Actually, as has already been noted on the PDML, a PEF file is > > simply a TIFF file. > > I thought the TIFF portion of the file started at 0x10000, but that > might just be where the TIFF data for the main image starts.
Nope. It's a real TIFF, starting at byte 0. Try renaming one to have a TIFF file extension, then try reading it in to your favourite image editing program. If it can handle 16-bit grayscale TIFFs you should be able to see image data.
