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I use a simple code that saves pictures from the picamera as a jpeg. But i want to save the pictures as a MIME-type, which should be possible according to the API, specifically as a .tiff-format.
Can someone help how to get this MIME-type as output? This is my code:
def picture():
timestamp=datetime.now()
pc.capture('/home/pi/Pictures/pic'+str(timestamp)+'.jpg')
Picamera does not seem to support TIFF. Here's a list of supported formats from the documentation:
'jpeg' - Write a JPEG file
'png' - Write a PNG file
'gif' - Write a GIF file
'bmp' - Write a Windows bitmap file
'yuv' - Write the raw image data to a file in YUV420 format
'rgb' - Write the raw image data to a file in 24-bit RGB format
'rgba' - Write the raw image data to a file in 32-bit RGBA format
'bgr' - Write the raw image data to a file in 24-bit BGR format
'bgra' - Write the raw image data to a file in 32-bit BGRA format
'raw' - Deprecated option for raw captures; the format is taken from the deprecated raw_format attribute
The "support" for MIME in picamera is limited to automatically stripping the prefix, that is, you could specify the format as jpg or image/jpg. Specifying image/tiff does not automatically makes TIFF supported.
