lol we posted at the same time Chris
Roger
just also keeping on the photo's and storage theme .... just for your learning
nice little camera
That's a nice thought BUT realise that you should not just be keeping your pic on the camera card else yes eventually you will have to delete some for room for others
not a good plan
follow the ways of the force young skywalker
You NEVER have to delete pic files unless they are crappy blurry etc ones
REMEMBER Computer hard drive space is dirt cheap - a terabyte drive for ~ $100 give or take a little
you could spend several life times trying to fill that with your top quality pic setting
ALWAYS take pics with the best quality setting
ALWAYS download your pics to your computer, that means you never run out of room on the camera storage card ( well unless you go on holiday and take 100's of pix)
camera cards are not the most reliable ... DONT use them for permanent storage
And on this note I even backup the original pics I store to harddrive. Now you may have 2 drives back up the originals folder on the second drive -----
hey you should be backing up all you important files anyway !!! Harddrives also, as we all know, fail !
ALWAYS download the pic files to a folder named Originals --- These NEVER get altered/edited they are your top quality originals from the camera
ALWAYS move to another folder, call it what you like, eg My Photos, whatever the pic's you want to alter/edit, resize etc etc
DOWNLOAD that IrfanView prog I told you about, I will teach you the basics on how to use it
well in general nor do I, but on occasions I do want to print pics, even if its the standard 6x4 or a bit bigger, of a good holiday pic, stormchase photo etc
But if all the pics have been taken in low resolution as you are currently doing, even a standard 6x4 print may not look the best
The thing is .... if I have taken them in top quality, then I have ability to do whatever with them, make big prints, make small prints, make no prints
have a pic that fills the computer screen perfectly and looks great. Taking them in low quality doesn't give you those options
Sorry for hijacking your thread with the photo side of things, I just feel its really important. One day you may thank me, I know many other's have
that I have had the same discussion with
When I got my first digital cam way back in 2001, I was doing what you are with the lower res etc. BUT my biggest mistake was copying them to the puter
and resizing them etc immediately. I didn't keep the originals. Now years later I kick myself for that as back then a 640 x 480 pic was a good size on the puter screen
with the low screen resolutions of the day. Now with screen resolution very high, those pics are horrible tiny things and I don't have the originals anymore to make decent screen sized copies
cheers
Dave
