diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index dbbb6984..1341d6f2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 - add max and min to region shrink [rgluskin]
 - allow \ as an escape character in vips_break_token() [akemrir]
 - tiffsave has a "depth" param to set max pyr depth
+- libtiff LOGLUV images load and save as libvips XYZ 
 
 20/6/19 started 8.9.1
 - don't use the new source loaders for new_from_file or new_from_buffer, it
diff --git a/libvips/foreign/tiff2vips.c b/libvips/foreign/tiff2vips.c
index 4c908bdd..c8b7873e 100644
--- a/libvips/foreign/tiff2vips.c
+++ b/libvips/foreign/tiff2vips.c
@@ -2270,8 +2270,7 @@ rtiff_header_read( Rtiff *rtiff, RtiffHeader *header )
 	if( header->compression == COMPRESSION_JPEG )
 		TIFFSetField( rtiff->tiff, 
 			TIFFTAG_JPEGCOLORMODE, JPEGCOLORMODE_RGB );
-
-        if( header->photometric_interpretation == PHOTOMETRIC_YCBCR ) {
+	else if( header->photometric_interpretation == PHOTOMETRIC_YCBCR ) {
 		/* We rely on the jpg decompressor to upsample chroma
 		 * subsampled images. If there is chroma subsampling but
 		 * no jpg compression, we have to give up.