At 11:29 PM 2/10/2008, Andy Robinson wrote: >On 10/02/2008, Thomas Walraet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andy Robinson wrote: > > > > > > I started taking photos in March 2006. Since then I've taken 14,000 > > > photos taking up 10GB of space. > > > > Wow... > > > > When I take photos of street names, I set my camera to 640x480 pixels. > > It's far enough to read them, and only 100ko max per photo. > > > > Small photos are also handled faster by JOSM. > > > >Indeed, but I'm always finding I want to zoom in on something in the >photo because of what I inadvertently caught in the background so >having a slightly higher resolution is helpful. I only tend to dumb >down if I'm on a long full day session without download access. > >I'd certainly agree that there is little point setting a modern >digital camera to use its full pixel definition. Anything over 5 >megapixel is defiantly overkill in my view. Currently I'm using my old >2.1megapixel camera and thats normally quite sufficient.
I bought a 5 megapixel camera with x3(?) optical zoom so that I could snap street signs across wide-ish streets. After some tests, I also settled on 2 megapixels as the ideal size before pixelation sets in. It results in an average of 0.5 MB per picture. Mike Stockholm _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
