I scanned a file to Tiff at 48 bit and its shows Bits per Sample to be 16 16 16 (which makes sense), but the Max Sample Value is 255. Shouldn't it be 65535? I'm just afraid my scanner isn't really 48 bit
Sounds suspicious. Yes, one would think that it should be 64k for a full 16-bit-per-pixel image.
- Phil
I checked the bits for the image strip and its storing the right amount of bits.
And they aren't just duplicates or anything. Its just that the maximumsample is not storing at 65535
Other than number of bytes in the tiff strip and lack of obvious byte duplication is there anyway to insure that the scanner really scanned at 48 bit. I'm not really skeptical of the scanner. Lord knows it could have just stored the wrong piece of information in the maxsample
You can take a look at the image data and see if the top half of all words is 0. You should also be able to see the raw pixel values if you load into photoshop or some other image viewer.
- Phil
Here is a hex dump of the image data. Looks like I'm okay. Granted this was a scan top of the scanner lid.
6c f9 43 fb 84 fe 37 fa 87 fc 5e fb f3 fa 82 fc
77 fb 6d fd 69 fc c0 fb a2 fc dd fb 0f fa 87 fc
62 fc 88 fb 72 fe 0c fc 31 fa f9 fd f9 fc cb fb
30 fc 03 fd 91 fc dd fc 60 fe 26 fa 69 fd b9 fe
24 fc 5c fd 2c fe 0c fa e6 fc e3 fc fb fb 04 fe
e0 fc b5 fd 9c fe fd fc bd fc e5 fc fe fc 0b fb
39 fd 97 fd f6 fc 62 fd 57 fd 6b fc bf fd d9 fc
35 fb 08 fd 76 fd 2a fc 1b fc 15 fc 82 fc f1 fc
[snip 922 lines]
48 fa f9 fa aa fb 8b fa bb fa db fb fb f9 d0 fb
10 fd 8d f8 76 fb 1f fd 15 f9 f5 f9 24 fb 38 f9
67 f9 35 fb db f9 7f f9 2e fb 1f f9 5f f8 a3 fb
9f f7 06 fa 52 fa 08 f9 1d fa 97 fb 20 f9 92 fa
21 fb 88 f9 52 f9 57 fc 09 f8 12 f8 50 fb 38 f8
e5 f8 27 f9 3e f9 32 f9 a8 f8 cf f8 8f f8 bc f9
ea f7 4f f9 cb fa 64 f8 07 fa 7c fa a3 f9 bd f8
06 fc d6 f7 84 f8 dc f8
Yup. Looks OK as long as the image is uncompressed.
- Phil
It most certainly is uncompressed ;)