Re: [APML] File sizes of images

[Mark Bohrer <lurchl@ix.netcom.com>]

Sorry, that should have been Robert Reeves' excellent M31 Mosaic.


>Thank you for publicly flaming me... You need to take flaming lessons from 
>the LUG's Mark Rabiner. He's really good at it.
>
>More recently, Rob Gendler did two resolutions of his final M31 mosaic, in 
>both color and B&W. It was easy to see the incredible detail in either 
>resolution. While I don't suggest that everyone needs to be as thorough, 
>it does help to have options to reduce your download time. I look at and 
>place a lot of photographs online (and offline), and such options are 
>greatly appreciated.
>
>Even folks on the Leica Equipment Group list try to be considerate with 
>image file sizes, even though Leica pictures are of extremely high quality 
>and can easily make use of large file sizes.
>
>For the record, I use Macintosh G4, Pentium P3, and AMD K6-based computers 
>with resolutions set as high as the systems and their attached monitors 
>will handle. I also use Adobe Photoshop 6 and 7 for image processing. So I 
>do have some clues about this stuff, never mind 24 years' experience in 
>the semiconductor industry and published freelance photography for several 
>clients.
>
>
>>><snip>
>>
>>      I take strong issue with Mark's request.  I am reasonably certain I 
>> speak for most of us when I say that we need the detail in order to 
>> appreciate the real content of these images.  If Mark wishes to view the 
>> entirety of these pictures on his screen, he should change the 
>> resolution of his monitor so that he can see more pixels at once;  or he 
>> should acquire one of any number of imaging programs which can display 
>> the pictures by resampling them to fit a selected display 
>> resolution.  And I speak as one who downloads these pictures at 26.4 KB, 
>> not on a DSL!
>>
>>Paul Rybski
>

Mark Bohrer
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