diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5efe17562..ec08ceee6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 ### Improvements
 - Read config values from the environment variables ([#1422](../../pull/1422))
+- Optimizing when reading arrays rather than images from tiff files ([#1423](../../pull/1423))
 
 ## 1.27.0
 
diff --git a/sources/ometiff/large_image_source_ometiff/__init__.py b/sources/ometiff/large_image_source_ometiff/__init__.py
index 296c64485..29126bc7a 100644
--- a/sources/ometiff/large_image_source_ometiff/__init__.py
+++ b/sources/ometiff/large_image_source_ometiff/__init__.py
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ def getTile(self, x, y, z, pilImageAllowed=False, numpyAllowed=False,
                     numpyAllowed=numpyAllowed, sparseFallback=sparseFallback,
                     **kwargs)
         try:
-            tile = dir.getTile(x, y)
+            tile = dir.getTile(x, y, asarray=numpyAllowed == 'always')
             format = 'JPEG'
             if isinstance(tile, PIL.Image.Image):
                 format = TILE_FORMAT_PIL
diff --git a/sources/tiff/large_image_source_tiff/__init__.py b/sources/tiff/large_image_source_tiff/__init__.py
index 33b21fdb5..a75417b63 100644
--- a/sources/tiff/large_image_source_tiff/__init__.py
+++ b/sources/tiff/large_image_source_tiff/__init__.py
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ def getTile(self, x, y, z, pilImageAllowed=False, numpyAllowed=False,
                 allowStyle = False
                 format = TILE_FORMAT_PIL
             else:
-                tile = dir.getTile(x, y)
+                tile = dir.getTile(x, y, asarray=numpyAllowed == 'always')
                 format = 'JPEG'
             if isinstance(tile, PIL.Image.Image):
                 format = TILE_FORMAT_PIL
diff --git a/sources/tiff/large_image_source_tiff/tiff_reader.py b/sources/tiff/large_image_source_tiff/tiff_reader.py
index 61bf9d11e..a974d7c8b 100644
--- a/sources/tiff/large_image_source_tiff/tiff_reader.py
+++ b/sources/tiff/large_image_source_tiff/tiff_reader.py
@@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ def imageHeight(self):
     def pixelInfo(self):
         return self._pixelInfo
 
-    def getTile(self, x, y):
+    def getTile(self, x, y, asarray=False):
         """
         Get the complete JPEG image from a tile.
 
@@ -762,6 +762,8 @@ def getTile(self, x, y):
         :type x: int
         :param y: The row index of the desired tile.
         :type y: int
+        :param asarray: If True, read jpeg compressed images as arrays.
+        :type asarray: boolean
         :return: either a buffer with a JPEG or a PIL image.
         :rtype: bytes
         :raises: InvalidOperationTiffError or IOTiffError
@@ -774,11 +776,14 @@ def getTile(self, x, y):
         tileNum = self._toTileNum(x, y)
 
         if (not self._tiffInfo.get('istiled') or
-                self._tiffInfo.get('compression') not in (
-                    libtiff_ctypes.COMPRESSION_JPEG, 33003, 33005, 34712) or
+                self._tiffInfo.get('compression') not in {
+                    libtiff_ctypes.COMPRESSION_JPEG, 33003, 33005, 34712} or
                 self._tiffInfo.get('bitspersample') != 8 or
                 self._tiffInfo.get('sampleformat') not in {
-                    None, libtiff_ctypes.SAMPLEFORMAT_UINT}):
+                    None, libtiff_ctypes.SAMPLEFORMAT_UINT} or
+                (asarray and self._tiffInfo.get('compression') not in {33003, 33005, 34712} and (
+                    self._tiffInfo.get('compression') != libtiff_ctypes.COMPRESSION_JPEG or
+                    self._tiffInfo.get('photometric') != libtiff_ctypes.PHOTOMETRIC_YCBCR))):
             return self._getUncompressedTile(tileNum)
 
         imageBuffer = io.BytesIO()