strange how potent cheap music is

[rekraft]

Everyone loves sunsets. I've got a sunset photo on Flickr, which some of you may (or may not) remember. It has every cliche in the book - waves rumbling across the frame, the low duck-yolk sun catching the Statue of Liberty in silhouette and setting her torch on fire

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[queerbychoice]

That's a fantastic sunset, but it looks slightly posterized. You might want to lessen the JPEG compression or something.

[rekraft]

Yeah, funny, but it was already unusually lossy when I downloaded it to my computer. I suppose I was asking for it, shooting in JPG, but the difference in quality usually isn't that noticeable...

[queerbychoice]

Heh, I wish mine had a non-JPEG setting. My camera's pictures are alway hideously awful quality when I download them from the camera. Luckily, they're also about 6 times the size at which I actually post them, so by the time I shrink them that much, the quality problems are no longer evident. (Shrinking them that much also gives me plenty of leeway to correct the problems caused by my own lack of photography skills, too.)

[rekraft]

They seemed all right to me... Is there some image resolution setting on your camera that you're perhaps not aware of? Your camera's way newer than mine, so image quality and megapixels really should be the last of your worries.

[queerbychoice]

Of course they seemed all right to you; you only see them after I've shrunk them to a sixth of their original size! I never show anyone the humongous original versions, both because the quality is awful in the originals and because sending pictures anywhere near that huge via my dialup would be hellish.

I read my camera's instruction manual very carefully, so I'm pretty sure I didn't miss anything. The camera manufacturers just sacrificed a lot of quality for the sake of being able to advertise that their camera could take humongous pictures. Thankfully, shrinking the pictures fixes the quality.

[rekraft]

Erk, how mouldy. I hate this megapixel pride they've got going... the most high-tech camera I have shoots 3.2 megapixels and it still holds its own against some of the newcomers as long as I don't try to make subway posters out of my shots. Can't say I'm in the habit of reading my camera manuals (not that most of my cameras have manuals anymore, anyway) and there are probably lots of things I'll never find out about them.