This subject was discussed at great length some two or more years ago, when Mark Cassino was mindng the helm. The file size and dimension limits were dicided based on the following criteria: We needed make the files viewable, but not worth stealing. No small consideration. We dealt with image theft and deep linking to the PUG from outside image banks as best we could. Lastly, the PUG is available to us through the generosity of Frontier Vision Technologies. We had to reach a viable trade off with relation to the amount of server resources we used on a monthly basis. The last time I checked, which was some months ago, the PUG was generating in excess of 3000 hits per month, and was using in more than 3 gigabytes of server bandwidth per month. These are not insignificant numbers. In addition, the PUG is using over 100MB of hard drive space.
I suggest you learn to live within the limitations of the PUG for submissions to it, and put a link within your submission to take the viewer to a larger size image on a different server if you think the image merits it. William Robb ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" Subject: RE: Why do my photos appear in PUG full of artifacts? > Because the 600 pixel and 75K filesize limitations > are a joke. We might as well all be using 1 Mpixel > digital cameras. I just resized and jpegged a > very nice P67 B&W 8X10" and it looks like crap > with only 600 pixels max. What the point of using > all these fantastic Pentax lenses, and then reducing > the image to where its ruined?????? > > I vote for larger picture dimentions and filesizes. > It's 2002 for christs sake, were using 1992 size > images. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
