On 04/11/2013 06:18 PM, Jennifer Murphy wrote:
I think digital photography is beyond my mental capacities (sigh).

I have several photos that were saved both as raw image files and as
jpgs. For many of them, the jpg file reports more pixels than the raw
image file. How can that be? I thought a jpg file was a compressed
version of the raw image file. So the number of pixels should be at most
the same, and I would have thought somewhat lower.

Here are a couple of examples:


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You may want to read this article:



http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/raw.htm