A class representing a field in a TIFF 6.0 Image File Directory.
The TIFF file format is described in more detail in the comments for the TIFFDescriptor class.
A field in a TIFF Image File Directory (IFD). A field is defined as a sequence of values of identical data type. TIFF 6.0 defines 12 data types, which are mapped internally onto the Java datatypes byte, int, long, float, and double.
This class is not a committed part of the JAI API. It may be removed or changed in future releases of JAI.
@see javax.media.jai.operator.TIFFDescriptor
@see TIFFDirectory