Not as 500Kb , But at least 200kb

Mictheslik wrote on Jan 9^th, 2008 at 12:38pm:


...about 342 times...

Fair enough, but bear in mind I was only suggesting this for the photo forum. 

ozzy72 wrote on Jan 9^th, 2008 at 1:28pm:


Ok, fair enough. 

Well there has to be a limit & 100 is a nice round figure.

Tom... wrote on Jan 10^th, 2008 at 5:11pm:


Don't forget it's not just about viewing shots, uploading has to be taken into consideration too... the upload page would be at a crawl if you were on 56k dial up and had to upload a 500kb file.
100kb may take time to upload but is 5 times quicker than 500kb (obviously). 

BFMF wrote on Jan 10^th, 2008 at 6:15pm:


My point exactly 

Of course the finest image on the site is only 2.08kb...

ozzy72 wrote on Jan 9^th, 2008 at 1:02pm:


500 kB limit?

[Cough]Click here[/Cough]

Crash

I would like to see the size and the weight increased. A 150K shot can be displayed in all its glory at 1024x768 x 150KB

the 800x600 limit, especially with a wide screen which has a ratio which makes cropping to 800 wide, 500 high which means the shots end up smaller on one end.

800x500 or even 800x600 on modern screens is small. On a decent wide screen its very tiny and much of the detail is lost.

On a modern wide screen which many people use now, the ratio at 1024 produces a 640 high image. So 150Kb covers both the wide screen people and the 4:3 ratio people

150 is tight but it can be done and with about the same amount of loss as 100Kb at 800x600

More details can be seen. Many times I had to eliminate parts of a shot or discard an image because I knew after it was reduced you would not see the detail or it would lose its feeling.


Case in point, this image

http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/2008-1-9_22-30-35-282.jpg

which at 1024x640 did not require cropping to show the plane closer and it allowed the feeling of being in a huge valley (you could see it all) come out with the plane large enough to work in the shot.

Raising the thread weight to 600K allows 4 shots @ 1024x768 x150K or 5 if you can get them under 120 which is possible depending on the color detail in the image.

So uping the threads to 600 and the weight to 150 will allow for technical progress which has been around for some time and with the thread weight limit will still address those on slower connections because 100K added in this day and age is not that much.

I thought about that one myself awhile back as far as the weight limit. I'm content with the rules as is but always wondered........ What about one 500kb shot. Not something you would use everyday I am sure. But what if there's that one shot out there you really like and as close as you can get it in the compression is say 78-82%, thus ruining it. But instead of 5 100kb (or as close as you can get compression wise) shots you end up with one georgeous 500kb shot. If it were allowed say for the screenshot contest and edited screenshots only?

I have only violated the rules once when I first started screnshot taking................I feel as though another marmalade attack is comming to get me for my opinion on this matter . Better make like the wind lest I get sticky



Mike