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Camera picture size settings

Postby Moneypenny » Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:49 am

I have just purchased a new camera Canon SD950 IS, which has pictures sizes up to 8 million pixels setting. My hope is that I can achieve high quality pictures for my shows. I have been using Proshow for 2-3 years and love it.

I am a bit confused as to what size I should be shooting my photos at. I burn the shows onto DVD for playing on the TV. I always select the highest quality setting and previously have used the photos shot on my Nikon Coolpix 3700 at the highest quality and size. If I use the highest settings on the Canon will I get beeter shows. I don't mind if it takes a long time to burn. To set the photo size to 640 x 480 seems a waste.

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Postby gpsmikey » Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:25 am

My personal preferance is to shoot in the best resolution/most pixels
(without going to raw mode) jpeg. I don't remember exactly what
they call that on the Canon (I shoot Nikon, but my wife and kids have
Canon smaller P&S cameras) for several reasons:

1) memory cards are cheap so that is no reason to lower your image
quality.

2) You can always easily resize down if you want to have smaller
jpeg sizes later - while you can upsample, you can NEVER get
back the detail you didn't get in the original. There are many
utilities for resizing if you need (in batch mode). Check out
the free Irfanview if you don't have a copy - everybody should
have that handy tool !!

I always shoot my Nikon in the large/fine mode which is about
3-4 megs per picture. Having the finer detail means that I can
zoom/crop much more if I want for my show or prints.

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Postby hardsoftware » Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:21 am

I agree with Mikey, I do not resize any photos for proshow. I just use em as they come from the camera. In my case I use JPEG FINE/Large format which is 6megapixel, 3000X2000 about 2.5 megs per photo on my D40. Plenty of headroom for zooming/panning if I choose to do so.

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Postby DickK » Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:19 pm

This is a common question but there's no right, or one-size-fits-all answer. You might find some or all of these helpful:

http://www.proshowenthusiasts.com/viewt ... tion#26108

http://www.proshowenthusiasts.com/viewt ... tion#27127

http://www.proshowenthusiasts.com/viewt ... on&start=0

Overall, there enough advantages, however, to having all the pixels the camera will capture that most folks would suggest that as an answer. The only issues with doing that are the fact that:

-- you'll need a couple good sized memory cards for the camera
-- big images will use more memory as you manipulate them in an editor or in ProShow
-- handling big images will take more CPU horsepower but on most machines it won't be perceptible if there's enough RAM

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