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2007.07.04 17:36 "Re: 16-Bit-Per-Channel Lossless Compression", by Andrew Brooks
On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:13:40 +0100, Stephen Carlsen <sc42business@mac.com> wrote: > It seems to me that none of the lossless compression schemes commonly > used in TIFF are very effective at compressing 16 bit or 32 bit data. I agree, medical and satellite images both need this. > If we can come up with a simple approach that gives us on the order > of 2:1 compression of 16 bit photographs, is this useful, or are > storage space and bandwidth now so inexpensive that we don't care any > more? Rather, CPU is so plentiful it makes sense to always compress! Andrew