Re: PHOTO: digital images
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] PHOTO: digital images
- From: D* K*
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 21:53:25 -0400
>--- Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com> wrote:
>
>> I just figured
>> out that the low-quality setting on my camera will
>> NOT take well-focused
>> images. I have to set it on high-quality and then
>> reduce the dpi later to
>> get a manageable file.
>
>Hi Dennis,
>
>Can you or someone please explain what the above
>paragraph means? I only am familiar with SLR
>photography. With digital photography, do you not have
>the ability to play with your depth of field? Thanks
>in advance.
>
>Sterling
Suuuure, I'll give it a whirl, but I'll warn you that I'm not a
techno-weenie. <G> My digital camera has 3 settings--low, medium, and
high. On the low setting you can get about 100 images per memory
card...medium about 40...and high about 15. (Rough estimates here.)
A low setting photo, when downloaded to my computer, is about 40 Kbytes.
Whereas a high setting photo is about 240 Kbytes. (Rough estimates here.)
Whenever I try to take a low-setting photo of my flowers, it *NEVER* comes
out in good focus...no matter how hard I try. But when I do a high-setting
photo it comes out great. So then I just reduce the dpi on the
high-setting photo to reduce the file size down to around 40~50 Kbytes.
It's a round-about way of getting a high-quality image at a reasonable file
size.
When I take photos of other things...big things...pets, people, buildings,
scenic views, etc. the low setting is perfect. It's only when I try to
take photos of small things like flowers that it becomes a problem.
Oh by the way, my camera does everything automatic...cuz I don't know how
to be a real photographer and set all the settings manually.
Dennis Kramb; dkramb@badbear.com
Cincinnati, Ohio USA; USDA Zone 6; AIS Region 6
http://www.badbear.com/dkramb/home.html
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