RST Engineering wrote:

There was a comment on the "was" thread about .jpg being an inferior format
to a couple of other formats. So if my Kodak 1.3Mp camera only downloads in
.jpg, how do I fool it into downloading in some other uncompressed format?

Jpeg is the preferred format for photos that are going to be displayed for view
(for example, the shots we submit to Jay of our aircraft should be jpegs). Gifs
are preferred for shots that people are likly to just glance at (for example,
thumbnails) because they typically are smaller than jpegs and consequently load
faster. This is not always the case, however; typically, the busier the photo
is, the less advantage gif has over jpeg, and a gif of a complicated color photo
may be larger than a jpeg of the same shot.

The main problem you will have is that, once you have a photo in a compressed
format, any attempt to edit it will reduce the quality of the shot and almost
certainly drastically increase its size. If you're shooting for a web site,
download your file from the camera the size and quality you want and never touch
it again.

Many digital cameras will download in a "raw" format. Unfortunately, many of
these formats are proprietary to the camera manufacturer and you have to use
their software to manipulate it. The "bmp" format is pretty universal and can be
easily edited by most photo programs.

George Patterson
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