Shooting Digital Pictures?

Tom Wesenberg

Tom Wesenberg

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I bought my first computor and digital camera in 2001. I never had classes or lesson's on either, so I know just enough to get by for the few basics I use. The first camera with an HP 2.1 Mega Pixel. It took wonderful pictures and great close up's but ate batteries something terrible. Anyway I always figured to get the best pictures I had to use TIFF, so that's how I saved my pictures in my computor and later burned them to a disc. I just looked at one of those old disc's and see each picture on the disc is 5.5 megapixel. How can they be 5.5 meg when my camera was only 2.1 meg? Thanks

BTW I now have a 4.1 Olympus and shoot everything in JPG at mid quality and can't tell the difference from TIFF in high quality, even though they are saved at about 100K rather than 5.5 megapixel. Now they easily download to websites.
 
They are that large because TIFF format is "uncompressed." 5 megabytes is about right for an uncompressed image taken with a 2 megapixel sensor. The JPG format reduces the size by selectively discarding data. This is similar in concept to MP3 recordings. I would recommend using the "high quality" setting on your camera; storage is cheap these days.
 
Sparky said:
They are that large because TIFF format is "uncompressed." 5 megabytes is about right for an uncompressed image taken with a 2 megapixel sensor. The JPG format reduces the size by selectively discarding data. This is similar in concept to MP3 recordings. I would recommend using the "high quality" setting on your camera; storage is cheap these days.
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