white_from_data anchored the plateau search on the absolute maximum, so a
handful of stray samples above saturation (Canon EOS 70D CR2: 83 of 20.6M,
up to 14426 vs. a plateau at 13583) made it fall back to 2^bits-1. The
image rendered ~0.3 EV dark and clipped highlights were never seen as
clipped. Skip up to half a plateau's worth of strays when locating the top.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>