Sharp DIGITAL CAMERA

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera

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sharpVISION supports the image formats listed in the table below:

Format Ext Pixel Depth Notes

Tagged Image File Format - TIFF™ TIF 8/16 Grayscale

Windows™ Bitmap BMP 8 Grayscale

Portable network Graphics – PNG PNG 8/16 Grayscale

Multi-Page TIFF MPT 8/16 Grayscale

Multi-page Raw MPR 8/16 Grayscale (IDT proprietary)

Multi-page Compressed MCF 8/16 Grayscale (IDT proprietary)

Audio Video Interleaved (AVI) AVI 8 Grayscale (standard codec)

Apple Quick Time (MOV) MOV 8 Grayscale

Weinberger Sequence (BLD) BLD 8 Grayscale

Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) MPG 8 Grayscale (MPEG-1)

8.1. Formats overview

8.1.1. TIFF Format

TIFF pictures store a single raster image at any color depth. TIFF is arguably the most widely

supported graphic file format in the printing industry. It supports optional compression, and is

not suitable for viewing in Web browsers.

The TIFF format is an extensible format, which means that a programmer can modify the

original specification to add functionality or meet specific needs. This can lead to

incompatibilities between different types of TIFF pictures.

8.1.2. Bitmap Format

Windows bitmap files are stored in a device-independent bitmap (DIB) format that allows

Windows to display the bitmap on any type of display device. The term "device independent"

means that the bitmap specifies pixel color in a form independent of the method used by a

display to represent color. The default filename extension of a Windows DIB file is .BMP.

For further information, refer to the Microsoft™ documentation.