9-21-09-+Lossless

9-21-09 Julias =What is lossless?= Lossless is when you take a picture and compress it down without changing it very much. It basicly cuts out the unimportant pixals that wont make much of a difference. These files are usually saved as Tiffs, and JPEG's on your computer. Not only does it take out the unimportant pixals but it also saves you room on your camera, so if you have little memory on your camera then this option will help you out. =Resolution= Resolution is how many pixals you choose to have in a certain area of the photo. The more pixals you choose to have in a certain area the higher the picture quality you are going to have. If you dont want to take up space on your computer and dont really care about the quality of the photo then you would want to make the photo have low pixal numbers. If you really care about the photo, or it is a once in a lifetime chance photo, then you are going to want it to have a lot of pixals in your photo. For example; if you take a photo of someone falling off of a chair then you are going to want to have a high number of pixals such as 300. If you take the picture of someone falling off of a chair and only have it set as 72 pixals then you are going to have a very distorted picture when you go to blow it up bigger. =What is a __raw__ photo?= This is when you shoot a photo with no compression or anything, it takes the photo as it is and makes no changes to it. You can run into problems with this setting tho. If you choose to shoot raw with a Kodak camera and then try to send it to someone with a Soni camer, then it wont be able to open the file the same, so when shooting photos on this setting remember this. However, there is one way that you can get around this. If you have photo shop then you can go into it and save the photo as a JPEG, and then share it with others and compress it if you wish. =Which on would you choose?= Would you choose to shoot a photo with a resolution of 300 pixals or would you rather shoot the photo with a resolution of 72 pixals. I personaly would choose the 300, and so would many perfessional photographers. No matter what shot you take you know it would be a high quality, and you could always buy more memory later on. You always want to take the photo at the highest quality to make sure you got the shot that you wants. = =