Uploading digital photos

[Tony Alfrey]

On Monday 28 October 2002 03:53 pm,Joel Hammer wrote:
> 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.

Oohh, get the tif one and get a stack of 128MB cards.


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Tony Alfrey
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