Data Formats
Preferred Acceptable
Bitmap (Win) 8 Bit (.bmp) Wavefront 8/16 Bit (.rla)
TIFF 8/10/12/16 Bit (.tif) Wavefront (.rlb)
SGI 8/10/12/16 Bit (.rgb) Alias (.als)
Kodak 10 Bit log. (.cin) JPEG (.jpg)
Softimage (.pic)
Vista (.vst)
Targa (.tga)
Pict (Macintosh) (.pct)
All formats are generally uncompressed. Other formats and/or compression available upon request.
Colour depth (in bits) is given for each colour channel.
For example: "SGI 10 bit RGB" means: 10 bits red, 10 bits green, 10 bits blue, i.e. 30 bits of colour depth. If no other information is given, formats have 8 bits of colour depth per channel.
Data Carriers
  • Fire Wire Hard Disk
  • DVD-R
  • CD-R
  • DTF-1
  • Fast SCSI-Harddisk (DOS/UNIX/MAC)
  • JAZ (DOS/MAC)
  • CD (ISO 9660)
  • DLT IV (20/40 GB) (CI-transfer / tar) (10% surcharge)
  • 8mm EXABYTE (without data compression / tar) (10% surcharge)
  • 4mm DAT (tar) (10% surcharge)
  • Syquest 44 MB (DOS / Mac)
Labelling the images
Image names must appear as follows:
  • 3 letters = job name
  • 4-digit number (starting with the number 1) = image number
  • period
  • format description = 3 characters
e.g. ABC0001.tif
Image labels and path names must not contain any other characters, symbols or empty spaces.