 Cindy L. LaJoy |
Medium JPEG's For Printing We are getting ready to take a 30 day trip to Kazakhstan to adopt our second child and I am taking along my Canon D60. I have 4 256 mg cards and plan to shoot and shoot and shoot this one time experience! I was thinking about shooting in medium JPEG format to maximize the number of photos I can take on each card (it almost doubles!) but I wondered how much quality would be lost. I doubt I'd print anything larger than an 8 x10 and even that is big for my uses. For the most part I only use the photos to view on screen, email and print 5x7 or smaller. Can anyone share with me how bad the quality will be if I do this? I simply can't afford to buy any more compact flash cards for this trip!
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doug Nelson |
Cindy, since you are lucky enough to have the Canon D60, shoot one at the best res the D60 can do, in RAW or TIF mode. Open it in your imaging program. Shoot the same scene at a few different levels of compression and put them in your imaging program. Blow them up in Elements or PS until you just begin to see the image break up into pixels. The digital capture device in a camera of this grade is so good that you may well find a degree of JPEG compression that doesn't compromise image integrity or color too badly. With my less capable digicam, I see fuzziness and color shifts in faces, but, then, your CCD or CMOS device is of far better quality. We'd be interested in what you find.
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Piper Lehman |
Cindy, you should be fine with JPG medium. I shoot in JPG Med on my D100 for family stuff all the time. You'll still get about a 1MB+ file to work with and at 300 dpi, you'll be able to print these up to 8x10 just fine. Just make sure you test your white balance settings for optimal color representation. Cloudy -3 seems to be the most popular default, but it might help to learn to set a preset/custom on your camera. Check the manual and use a gray (not white) card. There are a few sites on the web that help you do this. Check out Moose Peterson's site http://www.nikondigital.org/articles/white_balance.htm for starters. Congratulations on your impending addition! How exciting! Wishing you all the best (and all the best shots)! p.s. Forgot to add that JPG MED FINE is what I shoot to get a 1+ mb image file.
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Piper Lehman |
Forgot to add that JPG MED FINE is what I shoot to get a 1+ mb image file.
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