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Hi there,
I used to have a range of P&S film cameras. I have a Kodak digital camera with the 4 MP resolution. The resolution is enough for looking at the pictures on the computer monitor and for putting pictures on web. Recently I bought a Panasonic LX1 for its manual control and for its allegedly sharp lens, which had a resolution of 8MP (which is equivalent to 6 MP resolution of the normal-width picture). I do not know what to do with the images. There are too many pixels which allow zooming on the monitor screen which I do not need. What else can I do with the pictures besides putting them on web (for which Pana LX1 has excessive resolution) ? Can I print it out in A4 or even A3 format (6" x 10 " or 12" x 20", respectively) ? This should be expensive, something like Au$20 for the A4 print. I shoot mainly landscapes. I can make a poster A3 size and put it on wall in my room... this sounds boring. What else can I do ? (Of course, I can put my pics on a pic-hosting website such as pbase.com, and show to other photographers... however, the LX1 resolution is too high and is not needed for the web-publishing). Help me ! Thanks. \/ |
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Do What did you did with your pictures from your P&S cameras...
Size your favorites as 4x6, 5x7 or 8x10's, what ever suits your fancy and print them, or have them printed The big advantage in digital is that you only need to print the ones that you like... not a whole roll of duds! "Panno Zhai" wrote in message oups.com... Hi there, I used to have a range of P&S film cameras. I have a Kodak digital camera with the 4 MP resolution. The resolution is enough for looking at the pictures on the computer monitor and for putting pictures on web. Recently I bought a Panasonic LX1 for its manual control and for its allegedly sharp lens, which had a resolution of 8MP (which is equivalent to 6 MP resolution of the normal-width picture). I do not know what to do with the images. There are too many pixels which allow zooming on the monitor screen which I do not need. |
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Panno Zhai wrote:
Hi there, I used to have a range of P&S film cameras. I have a Kodak digital camera with the 4 MP resolution. The resolution is enough for looking at the pictures on the computer monitor and for putting pictures on web. Recently I bought a Panasonic LX1 for its manual control and for its allegedly sharp lens, which had a resolution of 8MP (which is equivalent to 6 MP resolution of the normal-width picture). I do not know what to do with the images. There are too many pixels which allow zooming on the monitor screen which I do not need. What else can I do with the pictures besides putting them on web (for which Pana LX1 has excessive resolution) ? Can I print it out in A4 or even A3 format (6" x 10 " or 12" x 20", respectively) ? This should be expensive, something like Au$20 for the A4 print. I shoot mainly landscapes. I can make a poster A3 size and put it on wall in my room... this sounds boring. What else can I do ? (Of course, I can put my pics on a pic-hosting website such as pbase.com, and show to other photographers... however, the LX1 resolution is too high and is not needed for the web-publishing). Help me ! Thanks. \/ Almost any image-editing program will let you crop the images, or reduce the pixel count. But first save all the original imges on a CD. You may later want to edit them again for a different purpose. Blank CDs are cheap. |
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"Panno Zhai" wrote in message
oups.com... Hi there, I used to have a range of P&S film cameras. I have a Kodak digital camera with the 4 MP resolution. The resolution is enough for looking at the pictures on the computer monitor and for putting pictures on web. Recently I bought a Panasonic LX1 for its manual control and for its allegedly sharp lens, which had a resolution of 8MP (which is equivalent to 6 MP resolution of the normal-width picture). I do not know what to do with the images. There are too many pixels which allow zooming on the monitor screen which I do not need. What else can I do with the pictures besides putting them on web (for which Pana LX1 has excessive resolution) ? Can I print it out in A4 or even A3 format (6" x 10 " or 12" x 20", respectively) ? This should be expensive, something like Au$20 for the A4 print. I shoot mainly landscapes. I can make a poster A3 size and put it on wall in my room... this sounds boring. What else can I do ? (Of course, I can put my pics on a pic-hosting website such as pbase.com, and show to other photographers... however, the LX1 resolution is too high and is not needed for the web-publishing). Help me ! Thanks. \/ Sorry, but why did you buy the Camera? If it was simply because you like the high tec, then that is Ok. If you don't want to make big prints that is equally Ok. Just use it for what you originally intended. Roy G |
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There are too many pixels
ACK! Sacrilege!! You can _never_ have too many pixels!! Seriously, though - there are many programs out there which will resize images in batch mode for you - giving you a nice set of tiny jpegs of whatever size you want. Check out Express Thumbnail Creator. |
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BD wrote:
There are too many pixels ACK! Sacrilege!! You can _never_ have too many pixels!! Seriously, though - there are many programs out there which will resize images in batch mode for you - giving you a nice set of tiny jpegs of whatever size you want. Check out Express Thumbnail Creator. Amusing that he considers a lot of pixels as a disadvantage. Seems to me he should have stuck with the 4mp Kodak. I can't imagine complaining about 'too many pixels'. Grin. |
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BD wrote:
There are too many pixels ACK! Sacrilege!! You can _never_ have too many pixels!! Seriously, though - there are many programs out there which will resize images in batch mode for you - giving you a nice set of tiny jpegs of whatever size you want. Check out Express Thumbnail Creator. Irfanview. Free. Works very well. Does batch. Google for it. ---- Paul J. Gans |
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Panno Zhai wrote:
Hi there, I used to have a range of P&S film cameras. I have a Kodak digital camera with the 4 MP resolution. The resolution is enough for looking at the pictures on the computer monitor and for putting pictures on web. Recently I bought a Panasonic LX1 for its manual control and for its allegedly sharp lens, which had a resolution of 8MP (which is equivalent to 6 MP resolution of the normal-width picture). I do not know what to do with the images. There are too many pixels which allow zooming on the monitor screen which I do not need. What else can I do with the pictures besides putting them on web (for which Pana LX1 has excessive resolution) ? Can I print it out in A4 or even A3 format (6" x 10 " or 12" x 20", respectively) ? This should be expensive, something like Au$20 for the A4 print. I shoot mainly landscapes. I can make a poster A3 size and put it on wall in my room... this sounds boring. What else can I do ? (Of course, I can put my pics on a pic-hosting website such as pbase.com, and show to other photographers... however, the LX1 resolution is too high and is not needed for the web-publishing). Help me ! Thanks. \/ Yes, the 16:9 ratio is a little weird. Of course you mention one of the alternate ratios available (4:3, 3:2). You can make those adjustments before exposure. My solution is like one of the other responders mentioned: take the 16:9 photo, use it all if appropriate, and crop to the others if desired. But almost always keep the wide one for future use. I don't understand the "excessive resolution" problem. No matter what shape your pictures, anything over about a MegaPixel is wasted on computer-screen display. Other than making posters and displaying them on a wall, what not-boring use can you mention for photographs? -- Frank ess |
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Panno Zhai wrote:
Hi there, I used to have a range of P&S film cameras. I have a Kodak digital camera with the 4 MP resolution. The resolution is enough for looking at the pictures on the computer monitor and for putting pictures on web. Recently I bought a Panasonic LX1 for its manual control and for its allegedly sharp lens, which had a resolution of 8MP (which is equivalent to 6 MP resolution of the normal-width picture). I do not know what to do with the images. There are too many pixels which allow zooming on the monitor screen which I do not need. What else can I do with the pictures besides putting them on web (for which Pana LX1 has excessive resolution) ? Can I print it out in A4 or even A3 format (6" x 10 " or 12" x 20", respectively) ? This should be expensive, something like Au$20 for the A4 print. I shoot mainly landscapes. I can make a poster A3 size and put it on wall in my room... this sounds boring. What else can I do ? (Of course, I can put my pics on a pic-hosting website such as pbase.com, and show to other photographers... however, the LX1 resolution is too high and is not needed for the web-publishing). Help me ! Thanks. \/ Do what all we photographic idiots do, reduce the pictures in size and either print them or display them on a PC. Digital photography is for mugs, there are those who want to print everything up to 20*16 (of course there are no printers which will print that size), and then there are those who just want toprint 6*4 (this means losing a large chunk of your pixels), and then there are those, myself included, who hardly ever print a photograph since we got tired of stuffing countless photos into drawers and cupboards in the film era. Take up a nice hobby such as painting. |
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