Does everybody live in the boonies? It is very pleasant to have cable
or DSL access at about 2Mb/sec. $40 or less in Canada now. Canadian
$. Don't you want to move?
Another technique is to let the window load while you open another
browser window to look at something else, or handle your OM-mail.
If you want to see a BIG picture, in all ways, look at the one at
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?5826
One choice is 30,000 x 15,000 pixels.
That's one big GIF. And no compression artifacts.
Lets all move to lossless PNG!
Tom
On Monday, October 01, 2001 at 14:19, Acer V <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote on "FWD: RE: [OM] Photo size was: Photo," saying..
> >===== Original Message From Acer V <waltherppk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> =====
> >===== Original Message From Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> =====
> >At 08:53 AM 10/1/2001 -0700, "Mike" wrote:
> >>File sizes of more than 50kb pretty much excludes people with a slow
> >>modem connection from viewing your photos in any practical time frame.
> >>Less than 50kb is better, 25-40 being ideal. A computer monitor doesn't
> >>show much more detail anyway.
>
> whoa there. as far as i'm concerned, i will NOT ruin a perfectly nice photo
> with compression artifacts. 100kb-ish is what i shoot for, even more if need
> be. if it's worth viewing, it's worth waiting for (640*480 size). over 200kb
> and i will object, but 100 is fine, my 2 cents.
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