At 15:30 +0800 1/5/02, Kevin Lock wrote:
My friend has the 1.3megapixel Sony Mavica and on the 640X480 setting gets 16 images on a floppy. The quality is better than my shitty German-made Jenoptik at 1.3mp set at best resolution. I guess that is the difference between the $500 and the $800+ price tag.
The quality of the camera really determines the highest quality of the picture (including things like exposure and colour accuracy sharpness and such which you generally can't recover with image processing afterwards).
The size of the picture will generally depend on the level of JPEG compression and the picture pixel size.
I normally take pictures with my 2 megapixel camera in 1600*1200 "super fine" mode and they come out at around 800k. These can be blown up to about A4 size and still look good. With 1.3mp, you probably can't blow them up much past about A5.
For web photos, I convert to 640*480 at a quality around 75% which produces files around 70k. This works fine for screen viewing. If you drop the quality below about 70% I find the artefacts start getting very noticeable even to me.
Enjoy, Peter. -- <http://www.interarchy.com/> <ftp://ftp.interarchy.com/interarchy.hqx>
