Digital photography question

RE: Digital photography question

>Roger – DVD writers have come down a lot in recent months,
>I’ve seen them going at 120 quid from some places. However
>there is a man who knows more about it than me… come on
>Chris, it’s your cue!

DVD Writers, you really want to know.

Pioneer 104/105 DVD-R or DVD-RW, popular and DVD-R was set to be the new VHS.

Sony now have a new DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW unit but they are oversubscribed as I understand it and their are allegedly technical problems delaying release.

However, Philips have a set top DVD+R/RW machine at £440 which is producing excellent results, even the SAMSUNG 709 plays the discs I believe (take note DB). This has given the +R camp a big boost as it was originally assumed the -R camp would win.

So whaddya do in the mean time?

I write to DVD-R and find that most modern DVD set top players will read these discs with full menu control etc. (except DB Samsung of course). 4.7gb is enough to get over an hour of quality video on. At 25 frames per second that is an awful lot of piccies.

If you just want to record to a DVD then the Philips is a great machine but has only a basic menu page and although it has a firewire input and sort of multisession, should really be regarded as an advanced high quality Video Recorder.

Thats it, except you need to be careful about which media you use and don’t stick labels on the discs of any sort.

Cheers
Chris

RE: Digital photography question

>
>As a rule of thumb take large pictures to display on a PC
>and maybe smaller ones for printing purposes.

I have to dispute this, I’m afraid.

If you want to print a 6×4 inch image at 300 dpi, you will need an image of 1800×1200 pixels in size. An A4-sized image needs 3300×2400 pixels at the same resolution.

Your monitor screen is probably 1280×1024 at most, so for a desktop background you don’t need as high as resolution image, but for a decent print, you want as big an image as you can get!

Reducing the image size is generally OK, you won’t notice much, if any, loss in quality. However never enlarge an image – the computer can’t create detail from nowhere, and the end result is never good.

Hope this helps.

RE: Digital photography question

“If you resize your photo either to make it smaller or make it larger you will lose quality”

Munst – I’m by no means an expert, but are you sure this is correct?

The quality will be certainly affected if you are using JPEG, but with a TIFF I can’t see the mechanics that would cause this.

Moggy

RE: Digital photography question

As a digital camera user and a computer bod the question you want to ask yourself is “What size of photo do I want?” and “Will I want to print these pictures out” ?

The reason for these questions is this.

If you resize your photo either to make it smaller or make it larger you will lose quality. Not point in taking large photos if you expect to print 6 x 4 pictures. The downsizing of the image will reduce it’s quality. Try setting your camera to produce the size of image you want. The end result will be of better quality than a resized image. I noticed this with my digital camera. An untouched picture printed with greater quality straight from the camera than a reduced / enlarged photo shop one.

As a rule of thumb take large pictures to display on a PC and maybe smaller ones for printing purposes.

However what ever size you take make sure you burn them to cdr disc as they are dirt cheap and you WILL lose your hard disc!

RE: Digital photography question

Dazza,

I think that was a typo.

If you look at the context I suspect Roger meant DVD-writer.

Here the cost isn’t necessarily the issue at this stage, but the format hasn’t truly settled down yet. (Betamax video recorder anybody?)

Moggy

RE: Digital photography question

Roger, you can get a CD-ReWriter in the U.K. from about £40 upwards depending on make, model and recording speed, don’t know wether these prices are comparable to those in Holland though.

Regards, Dazza.

RE: Digital photography question

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 06-01-03 AT 08:14 PM (GMT)]Thanks for the answers already. I have no idea what FlyPast used on the Connie ( I’ll be happy if I get my copy in 2 weeks time as postal servive between the UK and Holland are horrible) I’ll guess it is the photo in the paintshop with the question if somebody has info on 4 pairs of props and an engine. I think the Connie will soon be followed by other historic aircraft, making their way to Holland.

About the digital camera, almost all the profs are going for the Eos 1D and 1Ds know, which means that the Kodak DCS 520s and Canon D2000’s are traded in, and are sold for a fraction of the price. I got mine, together with all gear and 3 extra sets of battery packs for around 700 P. Sterling. That’s why I bought it. I have no money for the 1D(s). And Damien, aren’t cd roms writers still very expensive?

thanks. BW Roger

RE: Digital photography question

I’ve just started archiving all my digital pics to CD myself Roger though my setup is nowhere near as ‘high tech’ as your setup. I use an Olympus C-700 ultrazoom which will produce 2mb stills which I save to CDR and allows me to save 350 to each CDR, though you’d only be able to put about 115 on each. If I had the option of saving 6mb pics I would do it, you never know what will happen, image wise, in the future and the bigger the pic the higher the quality. With CDRs so cheap at the moment it’s very inexpensive and easy to do.

Tom 😉

BTW lovely to see the update on the Dutch Connie in FP this month, keep up the good work.