I have my camera image recording quality set at "large fine" which is the highest setting. Unfortunately, these pictures are taking up a tremendous amount of space on the computer. By setting the quality at medium fine or small fine, what will I be giving up?? I don't do a lot of huge blow-up pictures, just mostly snapshots. Will I be losing a lot of quality to save space? The camera is a canon digital rebel xt, 8 mp. Thanks.
2007-01-27 04:52:57 · 7 answers · asked by sallysue 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cameras
If you have bought this camera & are turning down the resolution
because of HD disk space you've wasted money on the camera .
If you shoot Raw its 10 MB per picture .
Get a new hard disk or get an external hard disk they are relatively cheap now
2007-01-27 05:05:37 · answer #1 · answered by smartass 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is better to invest in some extra storage space on the computer than reduce the quality of your pictures in the first place.
Even if you are just shooting snapshots, the Canon RAW format (.cr2) will give you much more flexibility with your pictures. With RAW, if you take a picture with the wrong lighting setting, it is easy to fix in Cannon Photo Professional without loosing any quality.
You should also consider using a DVD +/- RW drive or external HD drive to backup your photos so you can keep them in a safe place (such as a fireproof safe). That way you can retrieve them should something happen to your computer or hard drive.
2007-01-27 10:36:24 · answer #2 · answered by Colorado Bald Guy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you don't do a lot of huge blow-up pictures or crop small portions of your image to enlarge, you can use the smaller file sizes. I would NOT use anything other than "fine" unless you really don't care about image quality. 1800x1200 pixels (2.16 MP) is perfectly fine for 6x4 prints. 2100x1500 (3.15 MP) is also fine for 5x7 prints.
Digital is free, so experiment. Just shoot a few pictures of your house or car or something in the different file sizes and see how it goes. Save them as JPG's instead of some other format (PSD, for instance) and you'll save more room.
2007-01-27 05:09:36 · answer #3 · answered by Jess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you do not want to lose quality, set the pictures into Medium/Fine or Small/Fine. They will still have the great details just in a smaller size.
2007-01-27 05:29:28 · answer #4 · answered by Koko 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this will decrease the resolution , the quality and the image size.... u will still have a good quality photos even with small fine but that's mean u did nothing by purchasing an 8 mp camera and using it as 2 or 2,5 mp ...good luck.
2007-01-27 13:10:47 · answer #5 · answered by bravo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can do what these people said but you should also buy like a 1 or 2 GB portable hard drive and upload your pics on those. Then you can fit a family photo album in your pocket!
2007-01-27 05:20:57 · answer #6 · answered by Dave Grohl Wanna Be!!!! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
by moving your capture setting down to fine or medium to get additional memoery space (and more pics) as long as you are using the pics for lets say max size 8x10 you shoudl have plenty of quality considering your cmaera is 8mp
check out the prices of memoery - its becming so cheap that upgrading to 2gb or 4gb memory is affordable - you dont have to get anything to high speed to do what you want
2007-01-27 06:22:22 · answer #7 · answered by mrdg90 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋