HDR & scientific images

Formats that store more than a screen can show: floating point brightness for film and rendering work, and calibrated measurements from telescopes and instruments, where each pixel is a value to analyse rather than a colour to display.

Formats

.EXR

OpenEXR image

Floating point HDR images with many channels, for film and rendering.

.FITS

Flexible Image Transport System

Astronomy’s images and tables, with plain text headers in 2880-byte blocks.