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From: "Grissom, Edward (Ed)" <ed.grissom@intergraph.com>
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Never mind, I found it in the mailing list archives. 

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ed grissom
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-----Original Message-----
From: tiff-bounces@lists.maptools.org [mailto:tiff-bounces@lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of Grissom, Edward (Ed)
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 11:24 AM
To: Frank Warmerdam; tiff@lists.maptools.org
Subject: Re: [Tiff] ImageDepth tag

I could not find mention of the ImageDepth tag at http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/tifftags/search.html

Does anyone have a reference description for this tag ? 

Thanks. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: tiff-bounces@lists.maptools.org [mailto:tiff-bounces@lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of Frank Warmerdam
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 10:49 AM
To: tiff@lists.maptools.org
Subject: Re: [Tiff] ImageDepth tag

On 11-02-10 11:33 AM, John Evans wrote:
> Hello, I was wondering what people's experiences are with the ImageDepth tag.
> There are a few mentions of it on this mailing list if one goes back far
> enough, but every TIFF I've seen so far (that has actually had the ImageDepth
> tag set) has had ImageDepth trivially set to 1, such as "cramps-tile.tif".
> Every TIFF except for one, that is.  That particular TIFF was pretty simple
> otherwise, photometric interpretation of MINISBLACK, SamplesPerPixel = 1,
> ImageDepth = 16.
>
> I can see how the ImageDepth tag could be useful, i.e. just one IFD with
> thousands of slices vs. thousands of IFDs each with just one slice.  And I
> can create TIFFs with with ImageDepth>  1 in other photometric
> interpretations, such as RGB and YCbCr...  but do people ever actually run
> into such beasts?

John,

I have not encountered TIFF files with non-trivial image depth values.  I
doubt there is much client software ready for them.  I'm not even convinced
that libtiff handles them well.

In *theory* I can see some utility for ImageDepth, but in practice I
would prefer to just avoid promoting it's use.

Best regards,
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