On Mar 12, 2005, at 11:58 AM, John Francis wrote:
Yeah, who knows what Pentax does, but I'd say Pentax likely does very little given that they didn't even do bit stripping in the D and do in the DS...
No they don't. They do use some rudimentary compression, but they are still using zero-padded sixteen-bit pixel values.
Are they at least doing byte-packing? I can't imagine what kind of compression they'd be doing without that at least.
Godfrey