Ultimate Burn Barrel

Freds · Nov 13, 2004

( A 3.5" floppy disk won't even hold 1 picture I take with my camera )

Holy moly! You must have one heck of a printer. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
I used to take large file pics, but never noticed a difference with the naked eye when printing them out on photo paper and they're pretty big to be sending even with broadband.
Most of the pics I take are 640 x 480 (about 64kb) so you can get more than a few on a 1.44MB floppy, but to tell you the truth, I don't remember the last time I even used a floppy, not with CDRW...

Freds · Nov 13, 2004

That's a weird edit... wonder what happened? All I did was change the spelling of a word /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Gatorboy · Nov 13, 2004

That's a weird edit... wonder what happened? 

When you edit a post that used the 'quote' feature, it does not translate properly. You need to manually remove the HTML tags and replace them with {quote} again. Until that feature is corrected, I suggest just using the BLUE FONT rather than QUOTE.

Gatorboy · Nov 13, 2004

You must have one heck of a printer 

The larger the photo size, the sharper the image that gets printed. There are plenty of websites with this type of information, but here is one that talks about suggested resolutions for printing.

This thread has really gone off track -- I have created a new thread more specific to this topic called Digital Photo Storage / PC Download

Freds · Nov 13, 2004

Thanks, I'll remember that.

Freds · Nov 13, 2004

Yeah, I played around printing at various camera settings, size of picture editing and at different printer resolutions... I just never really noticed that much of a difference or advantage to keep everything maxed out. For my use anyway. My camera's memory isn't near as large as yours though.
I'll give the link a looksee and see what I pick up.

Bird · Nov 13, 2004

Now look at it, after I changed it for you. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Dargo · Nov 13, 2004

bczoom, I likely have the same Sony Mavica laying around. On a trip to St. Thomas last year I bought a Minolta digital camera with a 40X zoom and a 1 gig SD memory chip. In high quality mode, as single picture is about 9.5 megs in size. The entire floppy disc only holds 1.44 megs unformatted, and 1.2 after formatting. That really severely limits the quality of the picture you can take.

My new computer does not even have a floppy drive. The good thing is that it does have the USB ports in the front now. With a digital camera that uses SD memory, the only inconvenience was to have to crawl behind it to plug in the USB connection from the camera. Now that isn't a problem. So far, I've plugged 3 different SD memory based cameras into it and it automatically recognized the camera and transferred the pics with only a couple of clicks.

Also, with a 1 gig SD high speed memory chip, I can take up to 22 minutes of continous full motion video at 30 frames per second. At 30 FPS, there is not the "jerky" look to watching the video. Therefore, it truely doubles as a camcorder. Oh yeah, it only cost me about $350 for the camera too. I paid much more than that for the ole' Sony when I bought it!

turnkey4099 · Nov 13, 2004

bczoom: Step 2.
Well, I was going to give you lots of steps to re-size, save... but if you want, just send me a PM with the size of your pics and your e-mail address. I'll reply with an e-mail address you can send them to (it'll depend on how big they are). I'll re-size and send back (or post for you if you want).

Brian )

Thanks. I will work on that later in the day. The morning plasma, lie and complaint session down town is due up. I don't think I will have a problem re-sizing as I found several edit functions in the programs I did wind up in.

Harry K

Well, I just tried. Rejected on two pics as too big. I sent you a PM describing the problems.

Harry K

turnkey4099 · Nov 13, 2004

Trying again. I seem to have one of them down to size via a very crude method. This is showing the top with the 50gal liners. Both ends of the barrel are cut out. The blocks (except for the bottom two tiers) are only for appearance, the barrel holds the burning contents more compactly for better combustion.