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What resolution do you generally use on your camera?

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2304 x 1728 (Canon A520)

As others have said, you can always downsize later. Plus I have gotten some decent pics by cropping out a smaller area of something in frame I didn't even intend to shoot. If the rez isn't high enough though it will look like crap when you crop.
 
I set mine to the highest quality setting it can go. Get still get a couple hundred pics on there and I just always offload when I'm done.
 
3.2 Megapixel...whatever dimensions that comes out to be. There's really no need to have it higher than 2 Megapixels....
 
Originally posted by: MulLa
Usuall use the max res the camera can support, flash memory is cheap these days 🙂
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Yes, and it is best to start off with the best quality and then reduce it at home for posting on the web. Why cheat yourself? Shoot at the best quality and at the best resolution.
 
Originally posted by: BMdoobieW
Originally posted by: MulLa
Usuall use the max res the camera can support, flash memory is cheap these days 🙂
Click to expand...
Yes, and it is best to start off with the best quality and then reduce it at home for posting on the web. Why cheat yourself? Shoot at the best quality and at the best resolution.
Click to expand...

There is an inherent problem with shooting at higher resolutions, while memory may be abundant nowadays, write speeds have barely increased and its a really big problem for cameras in the 5+ megapixel range. I can only do about 3 continuous shots before my camera has to write to the internal memory and because write speeds are so slow with fullsized images, I max out at about 4 shots before it can't take any more shots because all buffers are filled up. If I recall correctly, the lower the resolution I shoot, the more continuous shots I can do with out the buffers being filled, although I do remember hearing about my camera being limited to a certain amount due to it's firmware..

I bought some flash memory at frys during blackfriday for a cheap $40 for 1GB of CF, problem is I need some really fast flash memory and I'm not sure what/where to get some..
 
Originally posted by: goku
Originally posted by: BMdoobieW
Originally posted by: MulLa
Usuall use the max res the camera can support, flash memory is cheap these days 🙂
Click to expand...
Yes, and it is best to start off with the best quality and then reduce it at home for posting on the web. Why cheat yourself? Shoot at the best quality and at the best resolution.
Click to expand...
I bought some flash memory at frys during blackfriday for a cheap $40 for 1GB of CF, problem is I need some really fast flash memory and I'm not sure what/where to get some..
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And there is the problem. CF memory is sllooooowwww. Almost any memory type is better than CF in terms of speed 🙁

 
JPEG fine, one step below RAW. Still holds ~260 pics on a 512MB card, and now I've got a laptop to offload to once it's full 😛
 
Originally posted by: goku
Originally posted by: BMdoobieW
Originally posted by: MulLa
Usuall use the max res the camera can support, flash memory is cheap these days 🙂
Click to expand...
Yes, and it is best to start off with the best quality and then reduce it at home for posting on the web. Why cheat yourself? Shoot at the best quality and at the best resolution.
Click to expand...

There is an inherent problem with shooting at higher resolutions, while memory may be abundant nowadays, write speeds have barely increased and its a really big problem for cameras in the 5+ megapixel range. I can only do about 3 continuous shots before my camera has to write to the internal memory and because write speeds are so slow with fullsized images, I max out at about 4 shots before it can't take any more shots because all buffers are filled up. If I recall correctly, the lower the resolution I shoot, the more continuous shots I can do with out the buffers being filled, although I do remember hearing about my camera being limited to a certain amount due to it's firmware..

I bought some flash memory at frys during blackfriday for a cheap $40 for 1GB of CF, problem is I need some really fast flash memory and I'm not sure what/where to get some..
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err u sure? maybe your cameras processor/buffer suck. i don't know how u got such a wrong impression. write speed is not an inherent problem at all. continuous shooting at 5mp is no trouble for todays memory/cameras. go check dpreview.com there are different grades of cf, generally rated like cdroms are 12x or whatever. cheaper cameras like canon s510/520 can't continuous shoot when just one grade up s620/610 can.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canona620/page5.asp has no burst limit
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canona520/page4.asp has limit
and i'm sure there are plenty faster, digital slr cameras with huge megapixels+huge speed/continuos shooting use cf after all.

heres a quick search http://www.dpreview.com/news/0601/06011701lexar133xcards.asp
133x compact flash cards😛 10MB/s..dude..thats fast enough, your cheapo memory is just that😉 but don't buy new memory if your camera wont benifit cuz its slow too😛

heck, new thumb drives are getting very speedy too
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: goku
Originally posted by: BMdoobieW
Originally posted by: MulLa
Usuall use the max res the camera can support, flash memory is cheap these days 🙂
Click to expand...
Yes, and it is best to start off with the best quality and then reduce it at home for posting on the web. Why cheat yourself? Shoot at the best quality and at the best resolution.
Click to expand...

There is an inherent problem with shooting at higher resolutions, while memory may be abundant nowadays, write speeds have barely increased and its a really big problem for cameras in the 5+ megapixel range. I can only do about 3 continuous shots before my camera has to write to the internal memory and because write speeds are so slow with fullsized images, I max out at about 4 shots before it can't take any more shots because all buffers are filled up. If I recall correctly, the lower the resolution I shoot, the more continuous shots I can do with out the buffers being filled, although I do remember hearing about my camera being limited to a certain amount due to it's firmware..

I bought some flash memory at frys during blackfriday for a cheap $40 for 1GB of CF, problem is I need some really fast flash memory and I'm not sure what/where to get some..
Click to expand...

err u sure? maybe your cameras processor/buffer suck. i don't know how u got such a wrong impression. write speed is not an inherent problem at all. continuous shooting at 5mp is no trouble for todays memory/cameras. go check dpreview.com there are different grades of cf, generally rated like cdroms are 12x or whatever. cheaper cameras like canon s510/520 can't continuous shoot when just one grade up s620/610 can.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canona620/page5.asp has no burst limit
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canona520/page4.asp has limit
and i'm sure there are plenty faster, digital slr cameras with huge megapixels+huge speed/continuos shooting use cf after all.

heres a quick search http://www.dpreview.com/news/0601/06011701lexar133xcards.asp
133x compact flash cards😛 10MB/s..dude..thats fast enough, your cheapo memory is just that😉 but don't buy new memory if your camera wont benifit cuz its slow too😛

heck, new thumb drives are getting very speedy too
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Raw Files are about 8MBs, you can't imagine that filling up the buffer? I've got a Digital Rebel (300D) and when I do continous shooting or even one shot with RAW, it takes a good amount of time to write to the memory and since I'm taking pictures faster than it can write to memory, it really slows down the continous shooting from 2.5FPS (max apparently) to about .5FPS (once internal buffers are filled and it's streaming data to memory card). If the camera could write faster to the card than it records (a seemingly decent write speed of 20MB/s and files are 8MB) then I would be able to do continuous shooting.

Quote from first site: "the A95 does not stop shooting once the buffer is full, but the frame rate drops significantly." Thats pretty much with my camera so I'm looking for a memory card that will reduce this effect, yes I believe technically I should be able to do continous shooting but it's really slow. Also has anybody experience situations where the camera writes a picture to the camera but the file ends up corrupt?
 
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