William Robb wrote:
Be that as it may, they as often as not manage to bugger something up, usually file size. I print a lot of 640x480 files up to 4x5 inch prints. Perhaps this is the default setting for the cameras, I don't know.
No it's not the default, it's the users that bugger it. Main two reasons are:
- they still use the 32 MB card that came with the camera and they try to cram a decent number of pics in it;
- they bought a large memory card but want to use their camera as a portable family album that holds all their pics (with a 512 MB card and 640x480 at high compression settings you're there, it can hold over 5000 pics).
