Convert TIFF-YC to TIFF-RGB

I have an older digital camera, a Fujifilm MX-2900. When it is set to
the highest quality setting, it produces files in in the unusual TIFF-
YC format. The camera comes with a program (Picture Shuttle) to
convert these files to the generally accepted TIFF-RGB format.
However, that program does not work in Windows XP, and the company
website doesn't seem to have a more current version.

Any suggestions for a program to convert from TIFF-YC to TIFF-RGB?

TIFF-YC is a lossless compressed format that dates back to the days of
much smaller memory cards - it produces files about 2/3 the size of
TIFF-RGB files, but containing the same information.

 

I don't see anything on"tiff-yc" - do you suppose you could provide a
sample? I'd like to look into that.

 

OK - I emailed you a sample with the title "TIFF-YC sample file"

 

Well, I feel dumb. I was so intent on my problem with the *conversion*
program, that I hadn't tried opening the file with my photo *editing*
program. That program had no problem opening the TIFF-YC file!

Thanks guys!

 

The email bounced saying "no mailbox here by that name"

 

Well, I feel dumb. I was so intent on my problem with the *conversion*
program, that I hadn't tried opening the file with my photo *editing*
program. That program had no problem opening the TIFF-YC file!

Thanks guys!


Assuming you meant TIFF-YCC, here is our explanation.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/sycc.htm

 

I just checked - I got the camera in 1999. Maybe it's time to bite the
bullet and get something more up to date. It's like the kids say:
"that's so twentieth century!".

 

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Peter"

Good grief, he seems to be implying that composite video output is good.

 

Only that it reduces file size, I believe, and hence bandwidth on analogue
(or digital) TV. Without component encoding there would likely have been
no colour TV as we've known it for the last 40+ years.

David

 

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "David J Taylor"

Agreed for component, but he specifically mentions composite at the end
- horrible way of doing it.

 

Yes, I doubt if there are any decent photo editors that can't handle
TIFF-YC. Photoshop certainly handles it, though I think a plug-in is
required. There were some Nikon/Fujifilm D-SLRs that supported TIFF YC
as an alternative to RAW.

 

He says: "In broadcast television and composite video one passes the Cr
and Cb channels through bandwidth limiting filters and then on to modulate
the I and Q quadrature channels of a dual-sideband suppressed subcarrier."
which is a statement of how colour television works. I don't read any
endorsement there.

Cheers,
David