Hi James and fellow Zuiks,
After having a discussion with James about the site that hosts his Cascades
photos that he told us about
http://home.earthlink.net/~spknsprkt/wsnC26F.html
and talking about the huge downloads (with not a lot to show on the web-
page for the overhead of transferred electrons), I saved his images to my hard-
drive. The middle one of his shots wouldn't even display on my machine
when connected - it is so big, but I told it to save the image which it
dutifully
did anyway.
Somehow, his host's program crunches quite large file into a small space.
Maybe there's a size restriction they have there, in the html code of the page.
I think that for the purposes of just the web display, the images could be
photo re-sized considerably smaller with a resultant large reduction in
download time. But there would be no beautiful large images to save.
When I opened up the saved files in my browser, they filled the screen and
then some. I mean, QUITE some more. These shots were scanned from
prints.
Not only are they beautiful, but the detail is amazingly fine, and the colour
rendition is crash-hot as well. (I wonder how the photographer managed to
hold the camera so steady after climbing all that way up).
The little XA is REALLY something else. Quite a revelation, to me at least.
I have a mint Rollei 35, but this blows the socks off it. I had a 35S, but sold
it
as it seemed like a lemon. But this XA !!
Brian
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Zuikoholics, enablers, one and all.
Feeding fantasies, emptying pockets!
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Brian Swale, 140 Panorama Road,
Christchurch 8008, N.Z.
Tel +64 3 326 7447
http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/photography/
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