New E Owners Having Too Much Fun to Post Pictures and Lease Terms?????
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From: Seattle
2001 ML320
I know this isn't a digital camera forum but...since someone asked.
I'm new at digital cameras myself. Just got this fantasticly small, tiny actually and only about 5 oz. and 3-inches square and 0.8 inches thick but only 2 megapixels (minolta dimage-x). Most people I know end up shooting at resolutions of about 2 MP even if their cameras are capable of 3 or 4 because the shots at 4 MP are such huge files and hence you can't store as many on the camera's media. Also, unless you are enlarging beyond 8x12 you should never need 4 MP. Of course, if you shoot at 4 MP you can crop and enlarge and still make good enlargements of the 'zoomed' image which you couldn't do on a zoomed 2 MP image.
Just what I've heard.
I'm new at digital cameras myself. Just got this fantasticly small, tiny actually and only about 5 oz. and 3-inches square and 0.8 inches thick but only 2 megapixels (minolta dimage-x). Most people I know end up shooting at resolutions of about 2 MP even if their cameras are capable of 3 or 4 because the shots at 4 MP are such huge files and hence you can't store as many on the camera's media. Also, unless you are enlarging beyond 8x12 you should never need 4 MP. Of course, if you shoot at 4 MP you can crop and enlarge and still make good enlargements of the 'zoomed' image which you couldn't do on a zoomed 2 MP image.
Just what I've heard.
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From: Northern VA
2003 MB E500
That's my understanding too Barney. Extra memory is fairly cheap. It is usually better to shoot at higher resolution because you never know ahead of time which shots will be one in a lifetime. So if possible get extra storage and shoot at the highest resolution your camera can just in case. But I agree most times it will likely end up overkill.
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Originally posted by Juke-box
damn!...poor kids d00d! they deserve to have room too! i know i got it..my dad bought the LS400 because there was room in the back..
damn!...poor kids d00d! they deserve to have room too! i know i got it..my dad bought the LS400 because there was room in the back..
only that now i'm very grateful of my daddy..lol
