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Subject: [Leica] DNG compression
From: jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier)
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:02:03 -0800
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If it is a loss-less compression scheme then the amount of compression will 
be image dependably.

John

----- Original Message -----
From: Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org>
Date: Friday, December 30, 2011 1:01 pm
Subject: [Leica] DNG compression
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>

> I'm probably flogging a dead horse, but there is one unanswered 
> question. In view of the slgorithm that showed up in a forum: 
> multiply the value that is between zero and 4096 by 16 and take 
> the square root, thus mapping the 12-bit number into an 8-bit 
> one, i.e. 0 to 256, how come uncondensed DNGs are all exactly 
> 36.4 Mb, but the condensed ones have varying sizes?
> 
> 
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