Re: picture's file size

> Can someone tell me the disadvantages of saving pictures in the smaller size?
The disadvantage of this is that you're getting a heavily compressed image, with much of the original information taken out - by the JPEG compression. If you want to edit or do any kind of real manipluation of images you are best going for the highest quality setting that your camera will allow. Saving this you should at least choose the setting just below this. When it comes to manipulating the image - Photoshop, Elements, et all - the more information in the image the better quality picture you're going to output.

Another point which most people don't mention is that if you use the lowest image quality setting in a low light situation, your camera will struggle more than normal to obtain the information and will thus produce images which are more noisy - and darker - than they should be.

Will Boon
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David M. wrote:
After a year with my first digital camera, I bought a new camera. The first one featured 3.1 megapixels and I often e-mailed photos to friends and family.

The new camera features 5 megapixels and the file size for each .jpg can be as much as 2MB larger than the .jpgs produced by the 3.1 megapixel camera.

I see that the new camera has a setting to make photos in a smaller fle size.

Can someone tell me the disadvantages of saving pictures in the smaller size?
Are there any utilities for the PC that will take as input a larger file size picture and optimize it to a smaller size?

I'm seeing (approx) 2.3 MB pictures in the large file format. My 3.1 megapixel camera produced files that were 1/4 to 1/3 MB in size. 



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