Digital Camera

[Horn_Spanker]

Most digital cameras have three settings like NORMAL, FINE, and SUPERFINE. When would you ever not choose SUPERFINE? Wouldn't you want the best all the time regardless of what resolution you chose?

 

[dustin_c1]

The three choices refer to the level of compression used in creating a jpeg image. You can have a big decrease in file size with only a slight decrease in quality. Back in the day when flash memory was expensive and a 32 megabyte card was considered a lot of memory, it wasn't a bad tradeoff.

 

[Agent007]

yeah the only issue is the number of pics which can be stored... these days some cameras won't even come with an option like that...

Mine will hold 245 at the best quality, 550ish at medium quality and 800ish at the lowest quality...

 

[Boozehound]

If you have a 4GB Sandisk Ultra II in there, you can pop off for hours before you fill up your card, but back when 128MB was a reasonable card size - it was all about conservation. I guess some people do it even still because they want to manipulate smaller files, but I dont know why you wouldnt just compress them on your computer as opposed to losing detail from the get-go.

 

[HornHawk]

Although the other issue to consider is what you do with the pictures afterwards. If you're like me, I've got about five thousand pictures now stored in memory on my computer, which takes up a ton of space, especially when saving to the larger size pics on the digital camera. I bought an external hard drive to save all the pics to, and also burn them to a photo CD as a secondary backup. The point being, of course, is that the larger pics can be a memory hog, but if you have the capacity for it, then go for it.