diff --git a/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/in/OMEXMLReader.java b/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/in/OMEXMLReader.java
index 46b179fea6e..8151f264561 100644
--- a/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/in/OMEXMLReader.java
+++ b/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/in/OMEXMLReader.java
@@ -338,47 +338,53 @@ class OMEXMLHandler extends BaseHandler {
     private final StringBuilder xmlBuffer;
     private String currentQName;
     private Locator locator;
+    private boolean inPixels;
 
     public OMEXMLHandler() {
       xmlBuffer = new StringBuilder();
+      inPixels = false;
     }
 
     @Override
     public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length) {
-      if (currentQName.indexOf("BinData") < 0) {
+      if (!inPixels || currentQName.indexOf("BinData") < 0) {
         xmlBuffer.append(new String(ch, start, length));
       }
     }
 
     @Override
     public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName) {
+      if (qName.indexOf("Pixels") != -1) {
+        inPixels = false;
+      }
+
       xmlBuffer.append("</");
       xmlBuffer.append(qName);
       xmlBuffer.append(">");
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void startElement(String ur, String localName, String qName,
+    public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName,
       Attributes attributes)
     {
       currentQName = qName;
 
-      if (qName.indexOf("BinData") == -1) {
+      if (qName.indexOf("Pixels") != -1) {
+        inPixels = true;
+      }
+
+      if (inPixels && qName.indexOf("BinData") != -1) {
+        binData.add(
+          new BinData(locator.getLineNumber(), locator.getColumnNumber()));
+        String compress = attributes.getValue("Compression");
+        compression.add(compress == null ? "" : compress);
+
         xmlBuffer.append("<");
         xmlBuffer.append(qName);
         for (int i=0; i<attributes.getLength(); i++) {
           String key = XMLTools.escapeXML(attributes.getQName(i));
           String value = XMLTools.escapeXML(attributes.getValue(i));
-          if (key.equals("BigEndian")) {
-            String endian = value.toLowerCase();
-            if (!endian.equals("true") && !endian.equals("false")) {
-              // hack for files that specify 't' or 'f' instead of
-              // 'true' or 'false'
-              if (endian.startsWith("t")) endian = "true";
-              else if (endian.startsWith("f")) endian = "false";
-            }
-            value = endian;
-          }
+          if (key.equals("Length")) value = "0";
           xmlBuffer.append(" ");
           xmlBuffer.append(key);
           xmlBuffer.append("=\"");
@@ -386,19 +392,22 @@ public void startElement(String ur, String localName, String qName,
           xmlBuffer.append("\"");
         }
         xmlBuffer.append(">");
-      }
-      else {
-        binData.add(
-          new BinData(locator.getLineNumber(), locator.getColumnNumber()));
-        String compress = attributes.getValue("Compression");
-        compression.add(compress == null ? "" : compress);
-
+      } else {
         xmlBuffer.append("<");
         xmlBuffer.append(qName);
         for (int i=0; i<attributes.getLength(); i++) {
           String key = XMLTools.escapeXML(attributes.getQName(i));
           String value = XMLTools.escapeXML(attributes.getValue(i));
-          if (key.equals("Length")) value = "0";
+          if (key.equals("BigEndian")) {
+            String endian = value.toLowerCase();
+            if (!endian.equals("true") && !endian.equals("false")) {
+              // hack for files that specify 't' or 'f' instead of
+              // 'true' or 'false'
+              if (endian.startsWith("t")) endian = "true";
+              else if (endian.startsWith("f")) endian = "false";
+            }
+            value = endian;
+          }
           xmlBuffer.append(" ");
           xmlBuffer.append(key);
           xmlBuffer.append("=\"");