Jeroen Wenting
(K=25317) - Comment Date 5/3/2003
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The higher resolution will give you much more options for postprocessing.
For example you can crop a smaller section without it looking bad when resized for display here.
Always store the original in the highest possible quality. Remember that anything you do to it later will only degrade that original...
Normal vs. Fine vs. Hi isn't resolution, it's JPEG compression.
Hi is uncompressed TIFF files (which will require a lot of storage space), Fine is minimal JPEG compression, Normal is medium JPEG compression.
JPEG compression is lossy, your data is gone for good. In Fine mode the loss is small, only really relevant if you're shooting a scene with very small details. Normal mode your loss is more and might be visible if you view the original at full magnification.
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Subha Pindiproli
(K=10108) - Comment Date 5/3/2003
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thank you for your reply. I was reading yesterday in EE Times about JPEG2000. JPEG2000 is a new standard which is being adopted by Canon and some other photo organization. The new standard is a LOSSLESS compression, and i am looking forward for that to become a standard.
I will indefinately put off my Digital SLR purchase until JPEG2000 becomes a standard and widely accepted, which should happen soon within a couple of years..
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Frank Hettick
(K=119) - Comment Date 5/19/2003
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Hey - Subha - You can wait forever and never catch up with the latest leading-edge technology! What shots are you going to have to foreget in the couple of years while waiting for Canon 'new technology' (actually that sounds to me like a marketing ploy to keep persons just waiting a bit and not buying the competitors product. For some more info on image resolution - take a quick look (at the 5th question below your on the index 'What is the maximum size I - - - etc.').
I posted a comment to that question (last one on the page I believe) on how I handle the high-resolution I need in my limited edition prints (13 x 19 space scene prints) and my camera (4.2 Megapix) probably doesn't have the MP yours does. Anyway - good luck on your decision - whatever it is!
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Terry V. Haslett
(K=403) - Comment Date 5/19/2003
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Subha,
If you can try and shoot your pics in RAW, you can know buy a plugin from Adobe for Photoshop that lets you manipulate the RAW data before putting it into PS as a tiff then you can do what you want but in saving it as RAW you have the original data as it came from the camera. Yes RAW does eat up a lot of space but these days you can get 1gb compact flash fairly inexpensive. After all you spent all that time getting the photo why not save it in the best format possible.
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