Is Being Able To Edit The Photo Resolution Important For You?

I have an iphone and i'm just fine with the default camera settings so far. I don't exactly take excessive photos of myself or anything so I'm not so concerned about that memory storage. My phone has a big memory too so i haven't really encountered same issue that you have. But i guess you should look up some information on how to adjust your settings.

 

if the photo is not important but a shot to share of have reference of something, I prefer the lowest resolution my cell camera has. Otherwise, I use the maximum, best quality resolution, but I'm continuously transferring photos from my phone to my computer so you rarely will see a photo in my cell unless taken very recently.

I love to have them in the computer not just for storage purposes, but it's way too much easier edit, crop or manipulate images from a computer than from a cell phone or tablet.

 

Of course. As a photographer / videographer, image quality is key to me. I can't have a grainy photo unless I have a specific reason for the image quality to be low. While I do end up keeping a number of my iPhone snaps on instagram to save space, it is nice to have some kind of compressor when at all possible.

 

Our camera including phone cameras are all set to the maximum resolution of picture size. The standard procedure is to archive the photos to the portable hard disk and delete them from the camera to give space for new pictures. Especially videos that are large in file size, it is advisable to save them in an archive disk. No, we do not resize photos since the high resolution is the good quality of the photos so why cut it down to size?

 

You may be right on that - some minor photos like simple selfies may not need a high resolution. So now you would chop it to save on storage space? But who knows, someday you may use that photo for a billboard type. I'm not joking, it is a probability. Check the old photos of your grandparents and you will realize what I am saying. Photos are photos and it may look trivial now but maybe precious someday.

 

Since I set up a website and used images, I realized that it really does affect how fast the page loads and that is does slow it down. As a result I reduced all the image sizes and they load faster now and look more uniform. I do think we get tempted to use higher resolution, but it doesn't always mean a better picture. You can store a low resolution and then adjust it later if need be.

 

1MB per pic is really not much at all - especially since most phones have memory upwards of 16GB. However that is an interesting point, as there may be situations where you don't need a high resolution image when shooting pics, and would prefer to conserve space on the device you are shooting on. I suppose they are assuming to just give you the best resolution your device offers, and you can then shrink the images down as needed.

The issue with raster based images, such as digital photos, is every time you shrink them down you loose image quality that you can never restore by enlarging them again. A digital photo is sort of like a tiled wall, made up of a bunch of tiny pixels (such as tiles). If you were to shrink a tiled wall, you have to toss out a bunch of tiles. If you try to enlarge the wall again, those tiles you lost are gone for good. When you try to enlarge a small image in a graphics application, it's sort of like blowing up a balloon with am image on it - it doesn't add detail, it just becomes blurrier and more stretched out.

 

Well not really since most of the time, the photos I take with my phone I tend to transfer them ASAP on my computer for upload or post processing. But I think it would be nice to have the ability to tweak the quality of your photos within the phone just to avoid any issues that might come up like space problems and upload sizes.

 

@sidney, while I use to backup most files on an external drives or sometimes onto a USB memory stick for quick, I had an issue with photos (seeing my mom burning down cherished pictorial moments) that made me relegate them in importance to be stored thinking that maybe someday they will be if not burned down, just deleted by someone I may think would like to keep.

So I rarely backup a photo, but zipping them, what makes hard to find them when I may need them at a later time. LOL

On the other hand, I agree with you when it comes to keep resolution low. My phone camera supports high resolution, but I used to find myself reducing it to a lower size via PC, so better to lower the resolution to 640x480, or 800x600 at most. I don't see the point to use the higher resolution options that, certainly, may reveal unwanted imperfections not just in one's face, but in details like a peeled wall paint or something.

 

Hey @sidney! Never though of it, but it's true, while the computer is mine there is no way to get anyone deleting my files.

Yes, it's sad but a few years ago, when my dad passed away , my mom thought to burn down of all of his photos, and continued burning down photos that it was supposed to be really cherished, like some of mine in childhood that I wanted to bring with me the past century, but she never wanted to give me saying they were a treasure... a treasure that ended up in ashes

My photos are stored in .zip format, but the problem to find them is that I use to "clean up" my files by creating directories with random names, that may contain typos or numbers.

These directories are then zipped and the originals deleted, so when I need a photo, I need to find a zipped file that might be called "pciture91.zip" which may have inside a photo called "Moon over Airport Blvd.jpg" or the same it might be called "IMG00043.jpg" or "DC0004.jpg" which says nothing to me.

On the other hand, since I'm always clearing my phone's memory, next time I use the camera, it will name a photo "DC0004.jpg" and if I ever find the zipped packages, there might be more than two or three of them containing similar named photos, which aren't the same.

What a mess!