On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 09:43:00AM -0400, Doug Franklin wrote: > keith_w wrote: > > > Re TIFF images, my manual says the tiff images are non-compressed. > > That's just a gratuitous comment, as I don't know that much about tiff > > images, > > except that they are way too large! <grin> > > The manual is correct for your camera, or maybe even all cameras, but > that's not a true statement about TIFF in general. The image data > stored inside a TIFF format file can be uncompressed or compressed, > depending on the settings used to save the TIFF file. In fact, a TIFF > file can even contain an image compressed in JPEG format (or several > other compression formats/methods).
That's one of the major complaints about TIFF - there are so many little extra little features, etc., that it's just about impossible to write software that can read an arbitrary TIFF-compliant file. Fortunately there's a defined subset, baseline TIFF, that suffices for most users, and anything that claims to support TIFF *must* handle everything that baseline TIFF can contain (I don't belive that includes compression). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
