Comments on: Your Photos: Quality for what Purpose? The Upshot http://blog.rv.net/2008/01/your-photos-quality-for-what-purpose-the-upshot/ RV Campground & Camping Information - RV, Motorhome, Camper, Travel Trailer & 5th Wheel Owners Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:54:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Wes Sims http://blog.rv.net/2008/01/your-photos-quality-for-what-purpose-the-upshot/comment-page-1/#comment-1020 Wes Sims Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:54:09 +0000 http://blog.rv.net/2008/01/29/your-photos-quality-for-what-purpose-the-upshot/#comment-1020 Dan: I think that's bad advice. If you have your camera set to a low resolution and then have a fleeting opportunity to get the "shot of a lifetime" -- you only have a low resolution version. You can never "upsize" the quality of a photo! I always recommend shooting the highest possible resolution in jpg format. Large memory cards are inexpensive. Storage on hard drives and DVD's is dirt cheap. I'm sort of a "Blind Squirrel" photographer - take lots of shots and some of them will turn out great. The most time consuming process (other than the slow connections often encountered) is choosing which photos to post. After that it only takes a couple of minutes to resize them to internet quality. My camera jpg;s run about 4 megabytes each. As a result I have the best of both worlds: screen resolutions to post and share, and best possible quality for archive. On a trip I download my memory card each night to my laptop, and a portable hard drive. The portable saved my trip last spring when my laptop crashed in Mexico, and would not restart. Lost all the photos on the laptop, but the copies on the portable drive were still there. I usually also burn DVD's every few days. You can't have too many backups -- from 20 years experience supporting computer users. Wes Dan:
I think that’s bad advice. If you have your camera set to a low resolution and then have a fleeting opportunity to get the “shot of a lifetime” — you only have a low resolution version. You can never “upsize” the quality of a photo!
I always recommend shooting the highest possible resolution in jpg format. Large memory cards are inexpensive. Storage on hard drives and DVD’s is dirt cheap. I’m sort of a “Blind Squirrel” photographer – take lots of shots and some of them will turn out great. The most time consuming process (other than the slow connections often encountered) is choosing which photos to post. After that it only takes a couple of minutes to resize them to internet quality. My camera jpg;s run about 4 megabytes each.
As a result I have the best of both worlds: screen resolutions to post and share, and best possible quality for archive. On a trip I download my memory card each night to my laptop, and a portable hard drive. The portable saved my trip last spring when my laptop crashed in Mexico, and would not restart. Lost all the photos on the laptop, but the copies on the portable drive were still there. I usually also burn DVD’s every few days. You can’t have too many backups — from 20 years experience supporting computer users.

Wes

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