Uploading digital photos

[Joel Hammer]

It may be function of the camera. I just looked at a Nikon Coolpic 4500. The
salesman said that the camera had the option of saving in several formats,
including jpg and tif.
Joel

Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:57:00PM -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> On Monday 28 October 2002 01:36 pm,Joel Hammer wrote:
> > Are the images recorded on the memory card as jpg's? Or, does the
> > software convert them to jpg's when they are read? I do not have much
> > experience with graphics, but, I have always thought of jpg's as a
> > compromise.
> 
> That's a good question and one that has sat in the back of my mind 
> also.  There is no "software" involved in the reader, it simply mounts 
> (at least on my box) as a SCSI device and the files have a .jpg 
> extention.  Remember that jpegs can be made with a little or a lot of 
> compression.