If your take the image from the camera to the printer, you will see
almost no difference. If you take the image from the camera to the
computer doing a little editing along the way you will see a little bit
of difference. If you reopen the image and do a bit more editing and
save it a couple of times you will see quite a bit of difference. Even
with my P&S I only shoot jpegs for snapshots (400+ per 1/2gig CF card),
for anything else I shoot in RAW (68 images per card), and try to do
most of my editing in the raw stage before saving as a 16bit psd file.
Of course I have a noisier image to start with than you guys do with
your DSLR's, but it does an OK 7.5x10 (fits standard 8x10 matt cutout
nicely).
graywolf
http://www.graywolfphoto.com
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Jack Davis wrote:
I'll work on being "meaningful." In the meantime I'd love to feel
content with an answer to what I though was an embarrassingly basic
question: Will a 1.5mb or 1.5mp jpeg produce as sharp a 20x30 print as
a 6.0mb or 6.0mp RAW capture?
My guess is that based on mb, no.
Re-opening a seriously compressed jpeg should be sparingly done to
avoid artifacts? B'lieve that's what I heard and have experienced.
Jack
--- Rob Studdert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 28 Nov 2005 at 18:13, Jack Davis wrote:
How about my question?
Rather than retype it here (with one finger), suggest you just
re-read
it.
(the initiating point that caused the question to be so stated, was
one
made wherein I could save on CD storage if they were stored as
1.5mp
jpegs rather than in RAW.)
I simply question the end product produced from the smaller file.
All I read was 1.5 meg which I assumed to be 1.5MB(ytes) not
1.5MP(ixels) which
are of course two independent and oft misinterpreted measures.
Everyone has to
be arguing about the same thing for it to be a meaningful discourse
:-)
Rob Studdert
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