diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 3f8fc35..d1fc5a9 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "tiffwrite"
-version = "2026.5.0"
+version = "2026.5.1"
 edition = "2024"
 rust-version = "1.88.0"
 authors = ["Wim Pomp <w.pomp@nki.nl>"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 81ce6fd..451c351 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ makes that very hard anyway.
 or
 
 - install [rust](https://rustup.rs/)
-- ``` pip install tiffwrite@git+https://github.com/wimpomp/tiffwrite ```
+- ``` pip install tiffwrite@git+https://git.wimpomp.nl/wim/tiffwrite ```
 
 ## Usage
 ### Write an image stack
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d6d162f..5474fc2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -29,10 +29,6 @@ dependencies = ["numpy", "tqdm"]
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 test = ["pytest", "tifffile", "imagecodecs"]
 
-[project.urls]
-homepage = "https://github.com/wimpomp/tiffwrite"
-repository = "https://github.com/wimpomp/tiffwrite"
-
 [project.scripts]
 tiffwrite_generate_stub = "tiffwrite:tiffwrite_generate_stub"
 
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 079d36c..1156a26 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ use colorgrad::{Gradient, LinearGradient};
 use css_color::Srgb;
 use flate2::write::ZlibEncoder;
 use lazy_static::lazy_static;
-use ndarray::{ArcArray2, AsArray, Ix2, s};
+use ndarray::{Array, Array2, ArrayView, ArrayView2, Dimension, Ix2, s};
 use num::{Complex, FromPrimitive, Rational32, traits::ToBytes};
 use rayon::prelude::*;
 use std::collections::HashSet;
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ impl Frame {
     fn new<T>(
         hashes: Arc<Mutex<HashMap<u64, u64>>>,
         file: Arc<Mutex<BufWriter<File>>>,
-        frame: ArcArray2<T>,
+        frame: Array2<T>,
         compression: Compression,
     ) -> Result<Frame, Error>
     where
@@ -434,14 +434,14 @@ impl Frame {
                     slices
                         .into_par_iter()
                         .map(|slice| {
-                            Frame::compress_tile_deflate(frame.clone(), slice, tile_size, tile_size)
+                            Frame::compress_tile_deflate(frame.view(), slice, tile_size, tile_size)
                         })
                         .collect::<Result<Vec<_>, Error>>()?
                 } else {
                     slices
                         .into_iter()
                         .map(|slice| {
-                            Frame::compress_tile_deflate(frame.clone(), slice, tile_size, tile_size)
+                            Frame::compress_tile_deflate(frame.view(), slice, tile_size, tile_size)
                         })
                         .collect::<Result<Vec<_>, Error>>()?
                 }
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ impl Frame {
                         .into_par_iter()
                         .map(|slice| {
                             Frame::compress_tile_zstd(
-                                frame.clone(),
+                                frame.view(),
                                 slice,
                                 tile_size,
                                 tile_size,
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ impl Frame {
                         .into_iter()
                         .map(|slice| {
                             Frame::compress_tile_zstd(
-                                frame.clone(),
+                                frame.view(),
                                 slice,
                                 tile_size,
                                 tile_size,
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ impl Frame {
 
     fn encode<W, T>(
         mut encoder: W,
-        frame: ArcArray2<T>,
+        frame: ArrayView2<T>,
         slice: (usize, usize, usize, usize),
         tile_width: usize,
         tile_length: usize,
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ impl Frame {
     }
 
     fn compress_tile_deflate<T>(
-        frame: ArcArray2<T>,
+        frame: ArrayView2<T>,
         slice: (usize, usize, usize, usize),
         tile_width: usize,
         tile_length: usize,
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ impl Frame {
     }
 
     fn compress_tile_zstd<T>(
-        frame: ArcArray2<T>,
+        frame: ArrayView2<T>,
         slice: (usize, usize, usize, usize),
         tile_width: usize,
         tile_length: usize,
@@ -621,6 +621,47 @@ pub enum Colors {
     Colormap(Vec<Vec<u8>>),
 }
 
+/// Clone if array is a view, do not clone if array is owned already.
+pub trait IntoOwnedArray<T, D> {
+    fn into_owned(self) -> Array<T, D>;
+}
+
+impl<T, D> IntoOwnedArray<T, D> for Array<T, D> {
+    fn into_owned(self) -> Array<T, D> {
+        self
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T, D> IntoOwnedArray<T, D> for &Array<T, D>
+where
+    T: Clone,
+    D: Dimension,
+{
+    fn into_owned(self) -> Array<T, D> {
+        self.to_owned()
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T, D> IntoOwnedArray<T, D> for ArrayView<'_, T, D>
+where
+    T: Clone,
+    D: Dimension,
+{
+    fn into_owned(self) -> Array<T, D> {
+        self.to_owned()
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T, D> IntoOwnedArray<T, D> for &ArrayView<'_, T, D>
+where
+    T: Clone,
+    D: Dimension,
+{
+    fn into_owned(self) -> Array<T, D> {
+        self.to_owned()
+    }
+}
+
 /// save 2d arrays in a tif file compatible with Fiji/ImageJ
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub struct IJTiffFile {
@@ -842,15 +883,15 @@ impl IJTiffFile {
     }
 
     /// save a 2d array to the tiff file at channel c, slice z, and time t
-    pub fn save<'a, A, T>(&mut self, frame: A, c: usize, z: usize, t: usize) -> Result<(), Error>
+    pub fn save<A, T>(&mut self, frame: A, c: usize, z: usize, t: usize) -> Result<(), Error>
     where
-        A: AsArray<'a, T, Ix2>,
+        A: IntoOwnedArray<T, Ix2>,
         T: Bytes + Clone + Send + Sync + 'static,
     {
         self.collect_threads(false, usize::from(available_parallelism()?))?;
         let hashes = self.hashes.clone();
         let file = self.file.clone();
-        let frame = frame.into().to_shared();
+        let frame = frame.into_owned();
         let compression = self.compression;
         self.threads.insert(
             (c, z, t),