LeicaRAW

Full Name	Leica/Panasonic Camera Raw Format
Format ID	ImGearFormats.LeicaRaw
File Extension(s)	*.raw
Data Type	Bitmap
Data Encoding	Binary
IG Multipage Support	No
IG Alpha Channel Support	No
IG Platforms Support	WIN32, WIN64, Unix, Unix64, MAC, .NET, .NET64, Silverlight

ImageGear Supported Versions

N/A

ImageGear Supported Features

IGFilterFormatFlags.DETECTSUPPORT - autodetection
IGFilterFormatFlags.PAGEREADSUPPORT - single page file reading

ImageGear Read Support

ImGearCompressions.NONE:
- Without color reconstruction: Grayscale - 10..16 bpp;
- With color reconstruction: RGB - 48 bpp.

ImageGear Write Support

ImageGear Filter Control Parameters

See DCRAW Filter Control Parameters.

Comments

Leica and Panasonic digital cameras use this format for storing Raw images.

By default, ImageGear automatically reconstructs colors in raw images during loading. You can disable one or more stages in the automatic color reconstruction, and reconstruct the images programmatically by using ImageGear Processing API. Use filter control parameters to disable specific stages of color reconstruction.

Leica/Panasonic Raw format uses TIFF/EXIF file structure as the base, but is not fully compliant with TIFF, so it can't be processed by a regular TIFF viewer. Raw image is stored in the root TIFF IFD as uncompressed grayscale image.