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quoth Bruce Marshall:

| A couple of comments:
|
| 1) I think you'd do well to limit the pic size to 1600x1200  (2M)  or
| less. And probably 640x480 for sending with an email.

well, sure, depending on the purpose. i like to shoot at full res and 
then scale 'em afterwards -- for instance, when i've shot weddings, i 
make a directory of the high-res files, then make a directory of 'em 
scaled to 800x600, and finally use a *severely* hacked album perl 
script to create thumbnails and the associated html. (actually, i 
typically break it up into several subdirectories -- before, during, 
after, for instance, and have an initial index.html which has a picture 
from each and a kind of cd-map; then i do an index.html for each of the 
subdirectories.) this allows people to put the cd into their machine 
and navigate and view at a resolution that is just fine on their 
screens -- but if they want to have nice prints made of some of the 
pictures, the high-res images, some of which run to 3.5 megs or so, are 
available. those produce excellent 8x10s and perfectly nice 11x14s. (in 
fact, the high-res images produce far better 4x6s than does even a 
1600x1200 image.)

| Most people don't have screens larger than 1024x768 and the larger
| sizes make it tough for them to view.  (just my $.02 from experience)

that's certainly true -- depends on what they intend to do with it. but 
for a "hey, look at this" kind of thing, you're entirely right imho.

| 2) For emails, use a lower jpg compression to make the pics around
| 40-60K in size.

sure. i typically really mash 'em and also email 640x480s.

| 3) I have a 4M camera but have never taken the max resolution with
| it.  Just don't see the need since I'm not planning on making huge
| prints of any of them.

i never know when i'm going to want a bigger print, and often the best 
pictures are the ones that need to be taken *right now,* so i leave it 
on high-res. i can always thunk it down later.

| 4) You might consider finding a web site where you can post pictures
| for people to look at.  Send once, view many.

typically, i'm not doing this for oodles of people. more often, i'm 
doing 50 pictures for one person.

| 5) If you're on a mountain somewhere, have you looking into the
| possibility of a wireless connection to some nearby town?

yup. ain't a possibility here. where i am, it is not possible even to 
receive a single television station without a satellite dish, and if i 
were a little more energetic today, instead of writing this i'd be out 
putting an enormous, elaborate lightning rod of an fm antenna atop the 
20-foot tower next to the house.
-- 
dep

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists
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