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To: "'Chris Cox'" <ccox@adobe.com>, <tiff@olympiakos.com>
Subject: RE: Decoding Kodak Tiffs
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I thought Kodak uses KDC format, Kodak digital camera format.
its raw,  marched right off the ccd arrays.
not a secret, just a pain in the neck.
I bet you can use other kdc code, but depends on the CCD geometry.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tiff@olympiakos.com [mailto:owner-tiff@olympiakos.com]On
Behalf Of Chris Cox
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 8:00 PM
To: tiff@olympiakos.com
Subject: Re: Decoding Kodak Tiffs


At 4:43 PM +0000 3/21/02, Paul Nolan wrote:
>Hello,
>
>My company has just released the first handheld photo editing and wireless
>transmission solution for photojournalists.  A large wire service has asked
us
>to add support for the tiff files generated by their Kodak DCS 520 Pro
>cameras.  They are proprietary tiffs containing raw 12 bit CCD data, with a
>2:1 lossless compression applied.  Kodak has an SDK for Windows and Mac,
but
>not Pocket PC, and is unwilling to provide the details needed to decode the
>tiffs without using their SDKs.  A long shot, but does anyone have any
clues
>as to the compression scheme they are using in these files?  There are some
>samples at http://www.kodak.com/US/en/developers/tools/03_dcs520.jhtml

It's raw CCD data - you need demosaic-ing software and a lot of other
things to process those images.

Chris

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