Re: Do you set your camera at high resolution?

"HEMI-Powered" <none@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Xns993B7B34BE7F2ReplyScoreID@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
=(8) offered these thoughts for the group's consideration of the
matter at hand:

Only a moron would shot at a resolution lower than the
camera's maximum. You never know what you will want to do with
the images in the future. This is like people in the past when
they threw out the negatives from the pictures leaving only a
crappy print on textured paper, that is now nearly totally
faded, yellow and glued on to an ugly ass album page.
Basically they and you are destroying the use of the pictures
for your own future use and for the use of your children and
their children, etc. They need to take you out and shoot you
in the head and yes they should do this at the full
resolution.

Then, I guess I am a moron. That seems to be a rather strong,
judgemental assertion. But, being the moron that I am, shooting
well over 15,000 images in the last 5-6 years gives me a pretty
good idea what I want to do with the images, and there simply is
NO justification for me to greatly increase my editing time and
HD storage for the 1% when I want to print.

As to my child, that is her problem. She has no interest in any
of our own family pictures, that of relatives she knew, she just
doesn't care. So, neither do I.

As to the other morons in my family, they fit your profile as
well. I have thousands and thousands of snapshots, the drug store
kind, but no negs. But, given the quality of the cameras these
people were using - yes, I remember - and the quality of the
developing process which includes the negs, I get what I want
from scanning the print.

I think it may be better for you to allow for the possibility
that other people may have different views of fitness of purpose,
and that hardly makes them morons just because they don't do what
you do.

--
HP, aka Jerry


I guess you are Hemi. We are not talking about there "fitness of purpose" now. We are talking about the future. When you shoot a picture now at a lower resolution and you or a relatives later on wants to do something that you didn't consider now you will pay for it. That picture of Grandma on the swing maybe important to great great grand kids who will hate your guts if the only image you have is low resolution crap. Do be like governments and politicians think for the future think for more than 10 minutes out. Doing anything else does indeed make you a dumbass and makes one wonder why you bothered buying a high resolution camera to begin with. You should have been done with the 2MP one that was out a few years ago.

=(8)

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