Found this page; http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/

And this tifffile.py;
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/code/tifffile.py.html


Here be binaries for winblows:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#vlfd

Don't have any TIFF's to try it out on tho.
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