Size queen
Mar. 22nd, 2006 02:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaneramosI received a shock Monday upon uploading images from the first excursion with my Canon: 182 images took up 583 megabytes. That's a honking wallop out of a 17 gigabyte hard drive, as much memory as the Kokak used in two or three months. Then I looked at individual files. They range from 2 to 4.5 megabytes, compared to 300 or 400 kilobytes, a bigger difference than expected.
So I researched the specifications of the Kodak, which I never knew for certain. Then came the biggest surprise: for the past four years I've been working with only 2.3 megapixels. I don't think anything less of that camera. What an amazing tool it was. The resolution was fine for web images.
Now I'm happy to move on.
Clearly I must rethink storing months' worth of images on my hard drive. I spent last night cleaning up, both literally and figuratively. Most of the huge porn collection, too, around 8,000 images, must go. Honestly, I've reached the point in my life where I have better things to do with my time.
I've cleared three gigs, a couple more to go. Now I'm heading to Royal Botanical Gardens' Mediterranean greenhouse to practice macro.
So I researched the specifications of the Kodak, which I never knew for certain. Then came the biggest surprise: for the past four years I've been working with only 2.3 megapixels. I don't think anything less of that camera. What an amazing tool it was. The resolution was fine for web images.
Now I'm happy to move on.
Clearly I must rethink storing months' worth of images on my hard drive. I spent last night cleaning up, both literally and figuratively. Most of the huge porn collection, too, around 8,000 images, must go. Honestly, I've reached the point in my life where I have better things to do with my time.
I've cleared three gigs, a couple more to go. Now I'm heading to Royal Botanical Gardens' Mediterranean greenhouse to practice macro.
