Hey, I'm on dialup, and often with a poor or slow connection. I've got no problem with file sizes around 200K. But, with that said, I'm not going to sit through an afternoon of waiting for files to load, but I'm content up to the limits of my patience.
However, after viewing many PAWs and PESOs it's clear that images with larger dimensions can be put with sizes in the 100kb - 150kb range. Shel > [Original Message] > From: Paul Stenquist > I was going to comment on the size restriction as well, but decided not > to stir the pot. But since you bring it up: yes it is a problem. It's > very difficult to prepare an acceptable image at less than 75K. I find > that I have to strip the metadata, so I do a save for web. But at 600 > pixels or less on the long side, it's hard to provide an image that > viewers can actually see. These limits are an historic artifact from > the early days of the list and PUG. It's really time to change them. > But every time that has been suggested, it seems there was an outcry of > unfair to dialup users. Perhaps dial-up is virtually dead, and we can > mover forward > On Jun 20, 2006, at 9:13 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > > Well, I wasn't going to respond unless I at least attempted to submit > > something to the PUG. So I tried. Nevertheless, I'm not offended. ;-) > > > > Even a *small* rendering of a photo, 500x400 pixels, compressed at > > median JPEG settings, is difficult to upload with a 75K limitation. > > Virtually impossible to upload a photo that size with an embedded ICC > > profile and metadata which preserves my copyright and contact > > information. The PUG's format must date from a while back ... People > > today look at 500K image files without batting an eyelash. No wonder > > so many of the photos render on screen with such poor quality. > > > > I could compress the photo I was going to submit even further or make > > it even smaller, or strip out my metadata, but I don't really like to > > reduce the quality of the photographs I present so much. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
