| ▲ | Aaargh20318 11 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> One thing that open source libraries do tend to miss is that very important extra metadata - for example, Phase One IIQ files have an embedded sensor profile or full on black frame that is not yet encoded into the raw data like it typically is for a NEF or DNG from many cameras. In astronomy/astrophotography the FITS format[1] is commonly used, which supports all these things and is, as the name suggests, extremely flexible. I wonder why it never caught on in regular photography. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | buildbot 11 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oh interesting! This seems like it would be a good fit ;) Especially for really old setups that had RGB color wheels and multiple exposures, exactly like a multispectral astro image might. Phase one also has a multispectral capture system for cultural heritage, which just shoots individual IIQs to my knowledge… It would work great too for multiple pixel shift shots. Possibly, the engineers just didn’t know about it when they were asked to write the firmware? It’s funny, I think most RAW formats are just weird TIFFs to some degree, so why not use this instead. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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