GHK Loc: The Vale of Eden

[quote=Frank T]You can reduce the resolution to 600x450 quite easily but it will significantly effect the quality of the image.

And How!!!!!!!!! And then some!!!!!!!
A digital file consists of, surprise, surprise, loads of digital information. The compresion cited will discard 97.3%, YES 97.3% of the information from your original image.
GHK

Wabbit Loc: Arizona Desert

Hey Doc ..... it's always better to have it and not need it vs. need it and not having it

singleviking Loc: Lake Sebu Eco Park, Philippines

In the S8200 CD manual, on page 18 of the "Editing Still Images" section, the menu functions for reduced resolution for internet use are described. This does not alter the original photo file contained in the camera or SD card file when used as a file transfer and the original file is not deleted after download to a TX device or computer is completed. This is described on page 18 of the "editing still image" section of your CD manual.
Also, for your contrast and white balance issues, there is full description of the "in camera" compensation techniques available in the manual. In order to really see what these compensation methods accomplish, you should play with them to determine which ones will work for the situation at hand and lighting situation.

singleviking Loc: Lake Sebu Eco Park, Philippines

Just because your display shows only 1920 X 1280 resolution, doesn't mean that when you enlarge a photo, you will get less resolution on your display. Your monitor always tries to display the image that it's set for. If the data is present in the file to resize the display image to larger format, the screen resolution still remains at HD or 1920 X 1280, so you can see finer details. The quality of resolution for any print is determined by the printer settings and by the photo data file that is being sent to that printer. Cropping and resizing a photo will reduce the pixel count of the photo file and pixelization will occur when the file doesn't contain enough data for proper display at the resolution and size requested. This is a function of the display driver or printer software doing fill in for missing data when too high a resolution is attempted.

GHK Loc: The Vale of Eden

[quote=GHK The compresion cited will discard 97.3%, YES 97.3% of the information from your original image.

Sorry, i made a mistake; it is 98.3%

loui

A display cannot show any more pixels than 2 MP because it is physically impossible, no matter what it says. A display's pixels are permanent hardware. If it says it is doing more pixels it means it is converting more pixels to its fixed pitch of 2 MP. In other words it "converts" your 16 MP or whatever in your camera to its 2 MP. You cannot possibly see a camera's pixel count in any electronic device now available. All a camera's pixels can only be seen in printing. Most really good photographers are permanently confused by this concept I don't know why.

singleviking Loc: Lake Sebu Eco Park, Philippines

Obviously your math needs tutoring. If your display has 1920 X 1280 resolution, as good HD displays do (some even have twice that now), then this calculates to 2.457 MP. But, when you enlarge your photo, you can easily display better resolution of each particular photo pixel contained in that file but the whole display can't actually show all the pixels from a file made by a 36 megapixel sensor's photo file simultaniously in the same frame limits of your display monitor (you will only display about 1/18th of the whole photo) I think you are misinterpreting a JPEG compressed photo with the RAW files and EXIF data. When displaying this RAW data, in full resolution, it will be larger than your monitors display area and therefore, a pan of the photo is required to view the complete photo. If you request "fit to page" it will be truncated or compressed so it fits on your display or printer.
Also, there are now monitors that have 4 times the FULL HD (1920 X 1280) resolution and soon SONY will release a monitor with 20 times the normal 1920 X 1280 resolution but it's price is near $100K. The display drivers and decoder chips already exist for Jumbotrons and huge monitors used in stadiums and sports complexes.

dar_clicks Loc: Utah

600x450 would yield very poor results. I don't even use that small an image for e-Mail any more. Always use the best camera capture you can, even if it means buying more and/or larger capacity cards, then reduce it in size later for e-Mail or web page use. Plus the larger image can also be used for prints or whatever else if desired. An example of "too small" is when a friend of mine had taken a photo of his mother. She later passed away and he wanted me to work on the photo to improve the background, etc. Hard as I tried, the 640 x 480 image from that old-time digital camera just wasn't good enough to allow much improvement.

Wild Life Loc: Sunny Southern California

Thanks GoofyNewfie, I didn't know that either.

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

600X450 is big enough to make a 2" wide by 1.5" tall high quality print. Does that tell you anything? You'd need about 3X more resolution than that to make a decent 4X6 print. 6X more resolution than that to make an 8X10 print.

What looks good on screen has nothing to do with what would look good printed. Computer monitors are typically displaying 72 pixels per inch wide and 72 pixels per inch tall. Prints typically require 240 to 300 dots per inch wide and tall. Pixels and ink dots are somewhat compatible words that are used for comparison regularly although they are different entities.

You want to take your shots in the highest possible resolution, save them to hard drive in that high resolution, then edit a copy of the original to the smaller size you want and save it under a different name, possibly even in a different folder so you don't accidentally overwrite the original. You never know when you might want to print a cherished photo you took at 16X20 and if you only have enough pixels for a 2X1.5, you'll be very bummed out.

art pear Loc: North Dakota

Shoot big and resize later. If you shrink your image size in post your smaller photo should still look as good as your original on your monitor. Just don't expect to make it bigger again or to print it out and make it look good. As stated above always save the original. If you can use outlook to email it will ask you if you want to shrink the pic for email and give you some different sizes to pick from and it will not harm your original image.

bgcokeonut Loc: St Petersburg, Fl

I did not know this. This is a very helpful point to me. Thank you.