look at the TIFF spec. you can store by bit plane as well. Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 1:16 AM Subject: Re: Now that the ist-D firmware has been upgraded...
> It would be possible to pack the data, and put two values in three bytes, > but not if you want to use a standard TIFF library (PEF is really TIFF > under the skin). And, in any case, I expect a future sensor to have > 14-bit or 16-bit data; I think the benefits of using basically the same > RAW image file format far outweigh any space savings.
