Hey /p/, I would have asked /g/ but I honestly enjoy taking opportunities to come by here with something to add or ask. and maybe you guys can help me out with this.Why does my camera take ~3MB photos? I mean, I understand how it works, but for the purposes of uploading here, I open in paint and save as a jpeg( so I keep the original and make a saved copy) and that comes out as less than 600 KB. Can someone explain the basic idea behind why there's such a massive difference between initial file sizes and resaved sizes.I guess I'm just at a loss for the specific reason. I don't notice any change in quality between the resave and the original, but I don't comb through the image for differences.Thanks for your help and/or explanation.
>>141978From the file naming scheme and resolution, I'm figuring you have an original Digital Rebel.The camera is just saving at a very high quality while paint or whatever you are using is saving with quality a step or two down. That is all.
>>141983I wish. It's a point and shoot Canon Powershot SD1000. I understand the concept of saving with as much data as possible, but it feels unnatural to see a quality-important image saved in what I'm normally told is lossy and poor quality.
there are different levels of compression to JPG, you can ask /g/ about thateven from inside your camera, you can set the quality to normal, fine or superfine, the quality and file size will change, try it
MS PAINT JPEG COMPRESSION MAKES BABY JESUS CRY.I MEAN. GOD. EWW.