Just to follow up on this, I have confirmed that MaximDL 1.41 successfully
reads 16 bit TIFF files from PView 2.0/Pictor 416.

Anthony

-----Original Message-----
Date: Sunday, January 04, 1998 1:08 PM
Subject: [M]: re: tiff & epoch2000ip


> >> Thanks. Coincidentally, I just received notification from Cyanogen that
> >> there's an update to Maxim DL (1.41) which reads 16 bit TIFF files. I
> >> guess this explains why I was having problems before.
> >>
> >> Anthony
> >>
>Anthony,
>
>I have had similar problems. Epoch 2000ip wants to save everything as an
>8bit tiff after calibration; one solution I have found is to do the
>calibration in pview2.0, which saves the image as 16 bit, then scale using
>photoshop. The new (unauthorized?) epoch2000ip 3.0 allows you to save as
16
>bit fits as an option, but the fits format is sometimes rejected by
>non-meade ip software; this can be fixed too, with a small amount of
effort,
>using an appropriate editor.
>
>Cordially,
>
>Don Dillinger
>Snohomish Hilltop Observatory
>Snohomish, WA
>CCD images at <http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dillinger>

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