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This one was taken at the highest resolution and then resized to 640 x 480 using the camera. I see what Alice means now about how frustrating it is about parts of the subject not being in focus as you can tell from the nose area.

took at highest resolution and downsize to 640 x 480 using the camera.

I have a feeling even though it was 640 x 480 it will be smaller because it was only 30kb while the first 2 were 150kb.

maybe just not as much detail make it smaller in kb's???

Like Dave said did ya read your manual? Hahahahhaa LOL

They are fun to read, have to read it about 10 times to get a hint of what they are talking about, hehehehee
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Tom,

I do not know the deatils of your camera , but in macro mode you should be able to get close--- like in 4-6 inches close!! BUT-- your depth of focus will be less when that close as seen in the DI pic. But that is welcome quite a bit when a certain "item" is meant to be shown off without distracting background stuff. The smaller the F-stop number--- the more open the aperature. That allows more light to enter which equals to a faster shutter speed-- all of this is depending on available light (unless a flash is used). It is a direct ratio depending on light--- higher f-stop numbers = slower shutter speed ( & vice a versa). Slow shutter speeds can mean fuzzy pics unless kept steady-- slower shutter speed = greater depth of focus. It is a constantly moving scale that always needs to be equalized for correct exposure. The ISO settings can make all of this faster or slower depending on the ISO setting.

QUESTION???__TOM DID YOU READ THE MANUAL YET????????

Grinnzzz

David--- "They ain't mutts cause I might know who the father was!"

Check out a site --something called "Steves Digicam" for info & stuff about cameras.

I don't use the camera software but I'm sure it has some means of resizing, but you can use programs such as microsoft paint and photo editor to resize too. If you have MS Paint, you can click on "image" select "stretch and skew" and reduce it by a suitable percentage. If you have Microsoft Photo Editor (I think it comes with most MS Office packages) click "image" and select "resize" and reduce the dimensions by a suitable percent. You can also do this with programs such as Adobe photoshop.

In macro mode, you should be able to get very close (a couple of inches). Macro doesn't work in manual focus, so make sure the focus button on the left side of the camera barrel (it's by the zoom toggle) is on auto. Then make sure you have the little tulip selected (it's just right of the flash above the lcd, this puts the camera in macro mode). I usually take my macros zoomed fully out and just get closer to the subject so that it takes up the desired amount of room unless I'm battling something like shadow from the lens. If you zoom in more than 5x (I think this is the limit), the camera is actually just cropping the image. If you do the things I mentioned, and still can't get a sharp picture at close range, there is definatly something wrong with your camera.

I'm very slowly starting to understand the technical stuff DVL is talking about. Most of my settings get left on auto and I still get decent pics. I'd recommend taking pics at maximum size and using software to resize them, I usually have much less marked out of focus areas, and I think that the lower resolution may be a contributing factor.

Hope this helps!
Alice

if you use the zoom to resize the pic all it is doing is bringing it closer and cropping it. But in the display feature you can actually resize the picture from lets say 2560 x 1920 to 640 x 480 and the quality will remain. If the pic is taken in the highest resolution and you use the zoom to bring it closer and crop it the quality will be pretty good. also. I was taking all the pics on the lowest setting for ease of downloading them to my photo site but now I realized I can take them on the highest setting and downsize them so they load faster and the picture quality will remain good. Again thanks for all your help. Tom