Noddy Q - why are my pictures all 2Mb plus ?

[anonymous-user]

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[Skier]

That file size is absolutely normal. If you view your pictures at full reolution you'll find that they won't fit on your computer screen. If you want to reduce their size for sending via e-mail etc then depending on your version of Windows download one of teh following (whatever you do, always make copies - you want to keep your original photos at maximum quality):

Windows XP: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/power...

Windows Vista or 7 (32-bit or 64-bit): http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/

Regards

Skier

[Taffer]

2Mb ridiculous for a photo? Try shooting in RAW with a high megapixel DSLR......

[LordGrover]

You may have an option on the camera to reduce the image size/quality.

[Taffer]

anonymous said:

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Ah, but they'll be high quality, and it's still 45 photos - how many photos of the same person does the woman want?

[Tycho]

You could try Ifranview which I use and it is very good. Here is a tutorial on how to resize

I'd take the photos at full res with the camera and resize them on the pc into another folder so you have the originals. This way if you want to crop the photo then you don't loose even more detail.

When you say that you can't get more photos on the disk, do you mean the memory card or the PC HDD?

[Jobbo]

What do you mean by 'disk' when you say you can only fit 45 pics on? A CD is 700MB so ~350 pics.

Edited by Jobbo on Thursday 4th November 20:09

[skeggysteve]

Do a search for 'Easy Thumbnails' (sorry I can't link you directly to it), it is free and will resize photos and so reduce the file size.
I've only used it today but so far it has proved very good.

ETA - in response to your question - digital photos make big files because they are good quality.
I've seen digital photos over 6meg - the detail is stunning. If you want to print then the bigger the file size the better.
If your want to put more photos on the disc have you thought about zipping them - yes, you'll have to search for zipping software - but it is not difficult.

Edited by skeggysteve on Thursday 4th November 20:25

[Dogwatch]

anonymous said:

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I can understand your frustration but think that is a big mistake for such important pictures. Turn the wick back up and worry about storage later. At worst you can always buy more memory cards.

[CobolMan]

Tonker, are you hitting the 45 picture limit when you're saving to the camera? If so then you've probably got a 64MB memory card so a few quid invested in a larger one would keep SWMBO happy.

[Jobbo]

What sort of disk is 100MB? Bigger than a floppy, smaller than a CD. Odd.

[Scraggles]

think my photos are 22 mb each, but then I do shoot in raw and have a 16 GB card that often gets filled

the OP can make for lower res pictures or get a bigger photo card

[CobolMan]

anonymous said:

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That's very odd, would you mind posting some screenshots from Windows Explorer showing the problem? I'm wondering if you've got a partitioned hard-drive and Windows is trying to save your pics to a small partition.

[CobolMan]

Sound like DVDs to me, 4.7Gb by any chance?

[CobolMan]

You should be able to put on around 4.7Gb worth of files (photos, music, film, whatever) onto a blank DVD. So a few more questions I'm afraid.
Have you tried a different DVD?
What sort of DVD are you using - there are write-once ones (DVD-R or DVD+R) or rewriteable (DVD-RW or DVD+RW) which may well make a difference.
Have you copied anything else to this disk in the past?

I'll admit I'm not that familar with disk burning on Windows being a Mac man myself.

[sgrimshaw]

You must be doing something wrong.

A 4.7gb DVD-R is roughly speaking 4700 mb.

Your files are around 2 mb.

4700 / 2 = 2350

So allowing for files being a bit bigger than 2 mb, you should be able to fit at least 2000 images on a disc.

[bigdods]

how are you burning them to disk ? You need to use Nero or similar . If you are using Windows XP it wont recognise DVDs for drag and drop (in my experience) so will give odd results.

[Scraggles]

which means that no-one else can read the dvd's - try them in another drive to make sure, if no-one else can read them, u better hope that the pc never dies as u will lose the photos

nero is a very good burning software, google it

[mically]

anonymous said:

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Vista comes with disc authoring, so you can simply "drag and drop" files onto the disc drive.

As said though, a DVD has a capacity of 4.7gb / 4,700mb.
2mb files seem about right for digital images.

No need to download any additional software/ drivers though.
Once your camera is connected to your system, it's read as removable storage (pretty much the same way a USB memory stick is read.)

Can't understand why you're not getting 2,000+ photos copied onto your disc?? Has anyone taken any videos with the camera?
Are all files from the camera approximately 2mb in size?

[CobolMan]

You're doing all the right things Tonker, most people don't take regular back-ups, just make sure you can actually restore your files.

I still can't figure out why your DVDs will only take 100Mb though. Are you dragging and dropping in Explorer?