On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:11:13 -0800 "John Celio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >I also refuse to use jpeg, png or nothing. > >> > >> Wow. That's bizarre. > > > > Hardly, jpeg is lossy compression. It grabs a square of pixels and > > averages them, you lose both dynamic range and resolution with > > jpeg. PNG is lossless and opensource. The other problem with jpeg > > is that because of the way it handles compression, it chokes on > > film grain. There isn't a way to feed a jpeg encoder a image with > > allot of film grain and have it spit out a reasonable result. > > People use it because they just don't know any better. > > You're talking about displaying photographs on the internet, which is meant > to be a way of sharing information quickly and easily. Image compression > quality takes a back seat most of the time around here, and no one else > seems to be complaining about it. > > Your elitist attitude is grating. If you really don't care about what > others think of your photos, why bother posting them in the first place? I thought they may enjoy it, I was wrong, instead they looked for something to complain about. Typical of the bulk of people really. > John > > -- > http://www.neovenator.com > http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Ben 'Polyhead' Smith KE7GAL -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

