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Anonymous
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.
>> Anonymous
>>141978

From 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.
>> Anonymous
>>141983
I 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.
>> Anonymous
there are different levels of compression to JPG, you can ask /g/ about that

even from inside your camera, you can set the quality to normal, fine or superfine, the quality and file size will change, try it
>> sage
MS PAINT JPEG COMPRESSION MAKES BABY JESUS CRY.
I MEAN. GOD. EWW.