Python, NumPy and 16-bit tiff files

[Marcin Swiatek]

Hi,

I have got quite a number of 16 bit images that I need to analyze. I
thought that Python and NumPy would serve me well - as they always did
with other number crunching. However, I do not know, how to bring
these images (16-bit TIFFs) in. PIL doesn't seem to cut it - as a
matter of fact the PIL-makers are quite explicit about that.

Do you know of any library that I could use to load these images and
convert them into Numeric matrices?

Regards,

Marcin