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Tom Wesenberg · 06-09-2010, 01:29 PM

I bought my first computor and digital camera in 2001. I never had classes or lesson's on either, so I know just enough to get by for the few basics I use. The first camera with an HP 2.1 Mega Pixel. It took wonderful pictures and great close up's but ate batteries something terrible. Anyway I always figured to get the best pictures I had to use TIFF, so that's how I saved my pictures in my computor and later burned them to a disc. I just looked at one of those old disc's and see each picture on the disc is 5.5 megapixel. How can they be 5.5 meg when my camera was only 2.1 meg? Thanks

BTW I now have a 4.1 Olympus and shoot everything in JPG at mid quality and can't tell the difference from TIFF in high quality, even though they are saved at about 100K rather than 5.5 megapixel. Now they easily download to websites.

Sparky · 06-09-2010, 01:42 PM

They are that large because TIFF format is "uncompressed." 5 megabytes is about right for an uncompressed image taken with a 2 megapixel sensor. The JPG format reduces the size by selectively discarding data. This is similar in concept to MP3 recordings. I would recommend using the "high quality" setting on your camera; storage is cheap these days.

mrtexas · 06-09-2010, 02:50 PM

.JPG is plenty clear enough unless you want to enlarge to 11 x 14.

anut · 06-22-2010, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Sparky

They are that large because TIFF format is "uncompressed." 5 megabytes is about right for an uncompressed image taken with a 2 megapixel sensor. The JPG format reduces the size by selectively discarding data. This is similar in concept to MP3 recordings. I would recommend using the "high quality" setting on your camera; storage is cheap these days.

just put windwings on my speedster this moring how do i join

Sparky · 06-22-2010, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by anut

just put windwings on my speedster this moring how do i join

Just go here and join:

http://fordbarn.com/forum/group.php?groupid=31

Do you mean you are using windwings for a windshield? I was thinking of doing the same thing. Got any pictures?

06-09-2010, 01:29 PM	#1
Tom Wesenberg Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Mpls, MN Posts: 27,582	Shooting Digital Pictures? I bought my first computor and digital camera in 2001. I never had classes or lesson's on either, so I know just enough to get by for the few basics I use. The first camera with an HP 2.1 Mega Pixel. It took wonderful pictures and great close up's but ate batteries something terrible. Anyway I always figured to get the best pictures I had to use TIFF, so that's how I saved my pictures in my computor and later burned them to a disc. I just looked at one of those old disc's and see each picture on the disc is 5.5 megapixel. How can they be 5.5 meg when my camera was only 2.1 meg? Thanks BTW I now have a 4.1 Olympus and shoot everything in JPG at mid quality and can't tell the difference from TIFF in high quality, even though they are saved at about 100K rather than 5.5 megapixel. Now they easily download to websites.

06-09-2010, 01:42 PM	#2
Sparky Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Rhode Island Posts: 649	Re: Shooting Digital Pictures? They are that large because TIFF format is "uncompressed." 5 megabytes is about right for an uncompressed image taken with a 2 megapixel sensor. The JPG format reduces the size by selectively discarding data. This is similar in concept to MP3 recordings. I would recommend using the "high quality" setting on your camera; storage is cheap these days.

06-09-2010, 02:50 PM	#3
mrtexas Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Sugar Land, TX Posts: 4,395	Re: Shooting Digital Pictures? .JPG is plenty clear enough unless you want to enlarge to 11 x 14.