2001.10.05 22:22 "16-bit ICC L*a*b* ?", by Dwight Kelly

2001.10.26 14:26 "Re: 16-bit ICC L*a*b* ?", by Dwight Kelly

Amazing. Seems you are describing the encoding used by ICC profiles, and evidently this is contradictory with the 8 bits encoding used by "normal" Lab TIFF.

There are two photometric tag values for Lab color in TIFF.

value 8 is defined as "1976 CIE L*a*b*"
value 9 is defined as "ICC L*a*b"

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