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2001.10.05 22:22 "16-bit ICC L*a*b* ?", by Dwight Kelly
2001.10.06 14:32 "Re: 16-bit ICC L*a*b* ?", by Martí Maria
2001.10.08 13:32 "Re: 16-bit ICC L*a*b* ?", by Bill Radcliffe
2001.10.09 00:12 "Re: 16-bit ICC L*a*b* ?", by Martí Maria
2001.10.25 21:53 "Re: 16-bit ICC L*a*b* ?", by Joris Van Damme
2001.10.26 13:28 "Re: 16-bit ICC L*a*b* ?", by Martí Maria
2001.10.26 12:46 "Re: 16-bit ICC L*a*b* ?", by Joris Van Damme
2001.10.26 19:32 "Re: 16-bit ICC L*a*b* ?", by Martí Maria
2001.10.26 14:26 "Re: 16-bit ICC L*a*b* ?", by Dwight Kelly
2001.10.26 20:54 "Re: 16-bit ICC L*a*b* ?", by Martí Maria
2001.10.26 15:45 "Re: 16-bit ICC L*a*b* ?", by Joris Van Damme
2001.10.26 14:35 "Re: 16-bit ICC L*a*b* ?", by Joris Van Damme
2001.10.26 18:28 "Re: 16-bit ICC L*a*b* ?", by Joris Van Damme

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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