Digital camera question.

[73chgrSE]

I've noticed many pictures posted on here look really good and clear, yet are still small file sizes. Are most of you using digital cameras?

I'm asking because most of the pictures I've posted are old and were scanned in and do not look as good when the file size is small. I'm aslo buying a digital camera soon. Hopefully the pictures of my restoration will be taken with that camera.

[Todd Wilson]

I use an old 3.2 megapixel  HP camera. Its antique compared to todays camera's. I always take pictures in the highest res mode I can and then reduce them down.  My camera is no where close to being top of the line. It takes good pictures but it can also take bad pictures.


todd

[Troy]

You can take pictures at a higher resolution but that doesn't mean you put them on the internet the way you saved the picture. Any decent graphics/photo editing software will allow you to shrink the physical size of the image as well as changing the compression of the image. The compression and type of image are what typically affects the image quality. You can get really good quality images under 200kb (file size) at resolutions as high as 800x600 and 1024x768 pixels with a little tweaking in the editing program. I will take all of my car pictures at 5 megapixels (which is something like 2560x2000 pixels) and then run them through PhotoShop to turn them into 800x600 jpg files with a quality setting of 7 or 8. This way I can post them for everyone on the internet but I still keep the original image in case I want to zoom in or crop it later on.

Troy