Re: OpenEXR files with nonlinearly encoded RGB

Elle Stone <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:06:47 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.openexr.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 02/27/2015 03:24 PM, Chris Cox wrote:
> No, 32 bit float is 32 bit float.
> And TIFF supports 16 (half, same as EXR), 24, and 96 bit float formats as
> well.

Chris, thanks! I've been wondering about that for a while, whether 
32-bit floating point OpenEXR somehow was able to accomodate more stops 
of information than 32-bit floating point tiff. So what matters is the 
bit depth, and not whether it's OpenEXR or tiff.

Elle

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> On 2/27/15 6:44 AM, "Elle Stone" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Are there differences in the number of stops that can be held in 32-bit
>> floating point tiffs vs 32-bit floating point OpenEXR images?