scikits-image/scikits-image — comment on commit 497b327be838d847a82c97d86aba4ad8dacf430a
File: skimage/io/_plugins/pil_plugin.py line 26
By tonysyu:

Hmm, when I open that image with PIL, the mode shows up as 'I;16'. Maybe we get different behavior because endianess is hardware specific? If that's the case, I should probably stop here and let someone else add the test for 'I;16B'.