Godfrey DiGiorgi mused: > > > 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.
No. As I said - 16-bit pixel values. Those don't pack. They seem to be using packbits compression, according to the headers. That's just a rudimentary run-length encoding (despite the name).
