Hi Izak On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 10:08 AM, izak marais <izakmarais@yahoo.com> wrote:

Stéfan wrote: "Unfortunately, RGBA images cannot be read this way. " Apparently it does not work with 16bit greyscale tif images either. For anyone else stumbling upon this thread, there is a work-about to get the data into a numpy array.

i = Image.open('16bitGreyscaleImage.tif') a = numpy.array(i.getdata()) # a 1d numpy array a = a.reshape(i.size) #2d numpy array

Perhaps there is a better way of doing it (?), but this works for me.

Would you do me a favour and see whether the patch from the Image-SIG mailing list fixes your problem as well? If not, please mail me an example 16-bit greyscale tiff off-list, so that I can rework the patch. Thanks Stéfan