From: Jonathan Berry (jberry_at_islandnet.com)
Date: Sat Jul 06 2002 - 12:05:14 EDT
> [Kodak DC215 digital camera]
>My 32Mb arrived today by mail from my friends in Long Beach. Stuck
>it in the camera, up pops "253". Then I changed the quality to
>"Best" and it says "112".
That's the number I get.
But you won't get that many actual exposures. Since the DC215
compresses images to .jpg (or a kodak proprietary) format, each
exposure is a different size. Snap a visually-complex scene,
and the number of exposures remaining will go down by two. So
framing your subject to mask extraneous info will not only
give you a sharper image, but may also increase the number of
exposures that you can get on a CF card. Which you then put on
a PCMCIA carrier and send to your Thinkpad (obligatory
content).
I've had a DC215 for almost a year and a half, but just figured
all that out a couple of days ago!
Incidentally, Kodak's jpg compression is more aggressive than
Sony's in the TRV730 videocam. So the Kodak gives more
exposures per megabyte, though I have no way of telling if the
quality of images takes a hit as a result.
I haven't tried taking a snap of a single colour to see just
how small a .jpg image the camera will produce when there is no
detail.
-- cheers Jonathan Berry http://www.islandnet.com/~jberry/ to know more than you want
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