Re: Sibrob photos, Files and the like (long)

Hi Friends,
	I'm finding this discussion useful as I ponder how to handle pics on the
hybridizer robin.

	Shauna, I suggest avoiding mutants (Windwood Spring) as a photographic
example. On the other hand, since I do seem to get a lot of these "4 leaf
clover" jobs myself, wonder whether it is a common experience.

At 04:31 AM 11/13/2000 -0000, you wrote:

> The chief complaint about receiving attachments 
>is the download time some people with slower modems face. 
>


I wonder if you could explain the rationale behind that thought. It must
take the same amount of time to download the pic from the web site as it
does to receive it automatically through the email attachment. Furthermore,
if you wish to view the photo again, some other day, you have to go through
the download another time; with the attachment it is sent to your machine
only once. And you don't have to go clicking your way through the web site,
or load multiple windows if you wish to avoid repeating a time-consuming
download. Plus, the link to the photo is right there in the letter
discussing it. 
What am I missing here? Just where is the benefit? We don't have enough
photos to make much of a dent in our hard drives, so in that respect there
is not much benefit.
I hope for some useful comments as this is the main focus of this post.
 

>
>A person should still limit their file size when scanning or saving 
>their digital camera files as a jpeg. Acceptable viewing/size on most 
>lists is generally less than 100k, and no more that 72 dpi in 
>resolution is necessary for list viewing purposes.




I haven't played around with compressing images yet (I'm waiting for
someone to scan some of my slides). Can you explain the difference in file
size between the Peg Edwards (288 x 288, 28K) and the clump (288 x 360,
61K), only slightly larger but more than twice the data? Is the color depth
twice as great? 





>
>Shauna
>(Alberta, Zone 3)
>

zone 3? I shiver just reading it.

Harold wrote:

>
>Shauna, yes I am out here. My computer freezes if I click on a URL while in
>Outlook Express so I have been deleting all the emails that have a URL to
>the files that you have posted.

This would seem another good reason for not posting the photos online. or
is it just Harold's computer? I've heard of lots of wonderful bugs on OE.




Ellen wrote:

>The Files Section for pic only works if the URL is completed thoroughly.
That 
>means no spaces in the URL. I have sent some on that didn't go through. I am 
>sorry but that is the way there were addressed to me.


perhaps the spaces were added by line-wrapping; just make sure any URL is
all on one line, near the beginning of the line so the line-wrap doesn't
stab you in the back. Otherwise it is a _total_ pain because one can't use
the URL as a link. Edit any that you are passing on so that everyone else
doesn't have to.



Michael (zone 9/10)


Michael Zarky
10963 Citrus Drive
Moorpark, CA 93021 USA

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