The way we dealt with 16 bits 'Pixel Data' on Big Endian processors

  The way we dealt with 16 bits 'Pixel Data' on Big Endian processors
  *looked* us very clever.
  but it does exactly the opposite of what we expected.
  (i.e. we get the the result we were affraid to obtain
  *without* our clever stuff :-( )
  Since I've no access for the moment to a big endian proc
  I comment it out, to see the result on the dash board