[Image-SIG] modes in Image package

[Bob Klimek]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

>Victor Reijs wrote:
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>>I was wondering if it is possible with the Image package to use a mode
>>like RGB but with 16 bits (or more) per each band?
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>there's no built-in Nx16-bit type, but you can of course use multiple
>single layer images, and split/merge on the way in/out.
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Fredrik, hmmm, I didn't think that was possible. Do I understand 
correctly? Are you saying that if I have a 16-bit/plane RGB image (tif), 
there is some way to read it into PIL by splitting it on the way in? It 
that's the case, that would be wonderful! Can you show a code sample how 
this can be done?

Below is my unsuccessful attempt and the resulting traceback. In this 
case "bear.tif" is a 48-bit RGB image. So what am I missing?

 >>> import Image
 >>> r,g,b = Image.open("h:/bear.tif").split()

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in -toplevel-
    r,g,b = Image.open("h:/bear.tif").split()
  File "H:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 1745, in open
    raise IOError("cannot identify image file")
IOError: cannot identify image file
 >>>

Regards,
Bob