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Mark wrote:
Does anyone know why it is like this considering the different megapixel specification for each camera? I would have thought that the 5 meg camera would have larger jpegs. It sounds like your camera uses more compression. The compression throws away a lot of the image detail. Yours throws away more than his. If you both take similar photos of the same scene, and if you both make 8x10 prints, does one camera produce better looking prints than the other? Bob |
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Larry wrote: In article , says... I own a Sony Cybershot 5.0 Megapixel camera (cybershot DSC-P10). My buddy owns an Olympia 4.0 Megapixel camera. [...] When my buddy takes pictures, the size of the resulting jpeg files is larger - closer to 2.5 Meg. Different file compression settings. Thats about it. Comparing one brand to another is tough. But important. If the files are smaller, they contain less information. (I'm still looking for a camera that offers lossless TIFF compression.) -Joel ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please feed the 35mm lens/digicam databases: http://www.exc.com/photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unless you are into VERY long waiting times you dont want what you think you want. Of the several cameras I have that save .tif files, the wat can be as long as a minute for a 5mp photo. Even the wait for a raw file is shorter. There MAY be some cameras around that save .tif as fast as lightning, but if there is, I have yet to see it. Cameras on the D70 level and fast CF cards can save in a few seconds, but then you pay a premium price for both. I assumed he meant a P&S but I often assume incorrectly -- Larry Lynch Mystic, Ct. |
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"Mark" wrote in message om... Hello, I own a Sony Cybershot 5.0 Megapixel camera (cybershot DSC-P10). My buddy owns an Olympia 4.0 Megapixel camera. We both set our cameras to the highest resolution. When I take pictures, the size of the resulting jpeg file is approximate 2 meg, give or take 100K (on average). When my buddy takes pictures, the size of the resulting jpeg files is larger - closer to 2.5 Meg. Does anyone know why it is like this considering the different megapixel specification for each camera? I would have thought that the 5 meg camera would have larger jpegs. Different compression ratios is the biggest reason for the difference, but noise contributes to compression variability among cameras, too. The more contiguous pixel redundancy in a photo, the more it can be compressed; cameras producing noisier pictures have decreased pixel redundancy and hence compress to larger file sizes. To see this effect, use a noise-reduction program such as NeatImage and save the same picture several times using different noise redunction amounts; the more "noise" is reduced, the smaller the resulting jpeg. |
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