<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.rca.com/product/viewdetail/0,2588,PI45905-CI313,00.html?>This is a link to the camera that we have</A> (and we didn't pay even half of that price at Office Max). I take my pictures at the high resolution setting, something like 1792x1200. Then I aquire them to an old Win95 PC running Paint Shop Pro. They come in at over 1 meg each. I then convert them to JPEG format, which reduces them in file size to around 350K. Then I use the resize function to change them to 800X whatever is proportional and they end up about 100K. 600X whatever gives me around 50K. The nice thing about taking them at the highest resolution, then reducing them, is that there is more detail than if you take them at low resolution to start with. Try a test with two photos of the same subject at low and high res. Go through the reduction process I described and reduce the high res shot to the same 600X that the low res shot was. Then compare them side by side. See if there is a difference.
That's what I like so much about digital photography. If you don't like it, delete it. You get instant results. We took some family pics over the holidays and several were real dogs! Eyes closed, kids with fingers in the nose, you name it. We plugged the camera into the TV and saw results that you couldn't see on the tiny LCD on the back of the camera. And the little kids love seeing themselves on TV. They can see that they had their eyes closed and understand what you are doing and they stand up perfectly for the next shot. OK everybody, line up again. Somebody hold the baby. Say cheese!
