diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 829811bf4..c7a2b5ea8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 ### Improvements
 - Harden when the bioformats reader claims it has a zero sized image ([#1268](../../pull/1268))
+- Harden internal retiling.  This sometimes affected histograms ([#1269](../../pull/1269))
 
 ### Changes
 - Adjust tifffile log level ([#1265](../../pull/1265))
diff --git a/large_image/tilesource/tiledict.py b/large_image/tilesource/tiledict.py
index fda723879..9c1c9afed 100644
--- a/large_image/tilesource/tiledict.py
+++ b/large_image/tilesource/tiledict.py
@@ -143,6 +143,8 @@ def _retileTile(self):
                     y0 = 0
                 tileData = tileData[:min(tileData.shape[0], self.height - y0),
                                     :min(tileData.shape[1], self.width - x0)]
+                if tileData.shape[2] < retile.shape[2]:
+                    retile = retile[:, :, :tileData.shape[2]]
                 retile[y0:y0 + tileData.shape[0], x0:x0 + tileData.shape[1]] = tileData[
                     :, :, :retile.shape[2]]
         return retile