Ignoramus22094 wrote:
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:08:54 -0800, xray wrote:
On 19 Dec 2005 10:03:24 -0800, "Too_Many_Tools"
wrote:

I really don't understand why people feel that they need to shoot a
large megapixel file when a 1-2 megapixel photo will do just fine.

Or less, even. For most web stuff pics of 800 x 600 are more than enough
for most stuff and thats about .5 MP.

Pity the poor dial-up surfers.

I would think that even poor dial-up surfers would prefer to be able
to see very detailed, highest quality pictures of the items that they
are buying.

I'd much rather see five 100kbyte photos taken from five different
angles, views, and distances than one 500kbyte photo. Always crop and
resize the originals and then use an appropriate level of Jpeg
compression. An excellent and very popular freeware tool for preparing
photos is available here; http://www.irfanview.com