I know that to take the clearest shots, I should take them at my camera's highest resolution... but I don't really know what that means.
So, what exactly is resolution?
How can I find out at what resolution my digital camera is shooting at?
Also, how can I change the resolution to a higher one (if needed)?
Oh, if you need to know this...I have an Olympus C765-UZ.
Sorry for the stupid/obvious questions. I'm semi-new to photography... and definately new to those fancy photography terms. =)
Thanks for your input!
2007-11-05 10:44:56 · 3 answers · asked by ♥ Dani 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
Resolution is the detail that the picture will show. The higher the resolution, the finer the detail, but the greater space the picture will take to store. If you go an explore Google Images or some other source of images, if you look at pictures that take little space, if you save them to your computer (right click and save as), then go to where you saved them and look at them (one way is to right click, Open with - Windows image and fax viewer) and enlarge the image (the + icon in WinViewer) it will get blury and what you thought you could see - 2 eyes and a nose - turns out to be 3 blobs.
If you then save a large picture - 334K instead of 13K - you will find it shows more detail and appears bigger on the screen. You can see details of eyes and hairs of eyebrows.
If you take pictures and want to show them big or edit them down, you can take higher resolution. But if you are taking pictures for a web page or for printing as 4x6, then you are wasting space in the camera (fewer pictures) and on the computer. I take most of my pictures at Nikon's XGA setting (like 1024x768) and cut them down by half or more after cropping and fine tuning. The original pictures run 121-190K and the edited versions at 350 pixels tall are 40-50K or smaller.
2007-11-05 11:07:13 · answer #1 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your camera seems to be only 4 megapixel. Resolution is base on how many megapixel and on the size of that megapixel. So your camera has 4 and the max resolution it can go is
1600 x1200. Its actually the size of a photo. Now I dont use that camera so i cant help you on how to change the resolution.
2007-11-05 10:55:23 · answer #2 · answered by Sang 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not silly questions we all start somewhere.........
in the menu look for settings like fine or extra fine for picture/resolution quality.....check out the camera manual
a tripod will help your sharpness alot
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2007-11-05 10:55:47 · answer #3 · answered by Antoni 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋