if you can, try stripping the superfluous 4 zero bits from every pixel and then rerunning the compression.

Herb....
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thibouille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 8:38 AM
Subject: *ist-D raw files compressed: results


I wanted to know how a raw file would compress, specially since D
files are quite big (bigger than DS as you probably know). I tried a
couple formats. My point was to know how it would compress the best,
not taking speed into account !!
Of course size will vary with the software you use and with options chosen.

Original PEF filesize: 14.222 KB
Zipped (maximum): 8.686 KB
RAR v2.5 (maximum): 8034 KB
ACE v2.6 (maximum): 8630 KB
7-zip (LZMA algorithm, 32MB dictionary size, 128bytes word size): 7308KB

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