RE: Digital Cameras

["Timothy Morris" <timothy.morris@xxxxxxx>]

Most cameras store the images as jpegs. The quality refers to the amount of
compression. 640x480 should be fine for TV viewing, at 1280x1024, you'll be
limited to a print size of 6.5x4 inches.

Tim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 28 September 2001 12:29
> To: ukha_d
> Subject: [ukha_d] Digital Cameras
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> My dad has just bought a digital camera (pentax e100) while on
> holiday and I
> think he's been well suckered by the salesman about the number of
photos /
> quality but unfortunately he waited till after he bought it before
telling
> me.
>
> The camera has two modes - 1280 and 640 and three quality modes in
each -
> best, better, good.
>
> I take it that the different quality modes reduce the colour depth but
I'm
> curious about by how much. If the camera is 10bit x 3 does this
> mean that on
> good it'll be doing a total of 10 bit colour ?
>
> For viewing the pictures on a TV what would be considered acceptable
and
> what about printing ?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff.
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