Sony digital camera

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Mon Jul 17 01:03:34 UTC 2006


Tim writes:

> On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 15:45 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> 1)  After copying the jpg files off the camera, open them in Gimp then
>> save them.  This will reduce the file size by at least half, without
>> any loss in picture quality
> 
> I find that hard to believe.  Perhaps you don't notice any appreciable
> difference, but I'd be very surprised if there wasn't *any* loss in
> quality.  That may be important to you later on, if you decide to edit
> files.

My eyesight is pretty good.  I cannot detect any measurable loss of picture 
quality.  It looks like the Sony camera just does not do any kind of 
compression of the jpg file.  Each picture file is on average about 1.5mb 
long.  Opening and saving the file in Gimp chops it down to about 600kb.


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