grapevinebass Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 Hey guys - I really enjoy lusting after many of the bass guitars up for sale, but.. Please include pictures that don't take 5 minutes to download! Anything over 1Gb is just over the top! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay249 Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 Anything over 1GB? 1gb for a photo?! must be clearer than real life! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martthebass Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 You get a good percentage of a DVD for that........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilb Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 think he means 1Mb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MythSte Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 You have a point but in the era of broadband it's not that big. and you have to consider people are making significant purchases so big pictures help give a true representation of condition. Perhaps you could borrow a broadband connection to investigate the ones you are interested in, or PM the seller asking for smaller pictures? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubs Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 get a faster broadband connection? stop using 56k? we're living in an era where digital fidelity is ever increasing so pics are only gonna get larger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 They still take a while (even when I'm looking at work - I work at a university btw - SuperJANET is a little faster than broadband ), and then the script that comes up afterwards and shrinks them to fit then mucks up your position in the thread while you're trying to read. I always scale down to 800x600 or thereabouts. Play nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubs Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Yeah I see what you're saying. I wasn’t really having a dig, just trying to make the point that a 1mb pic isn’t that large and is increasingly becoming the norm. I agree with steve-norris in that people buying expensive items would want larger pics to see the finer details. I share an 8mb connection with 5 guys who download copious amounts of HD porn and I never really have a problem with opening large files off here, never takes more than 10 seconds...but then I'm of the orientation that would sacrifice a little time for higher fidelity in anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 lmao 1gb photo, now thats serious quality Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 [quote name='benwhiteuk' post='173740' date='Apr 10 2008, 10:35 AM']Yeah I see what you're saying. I wasn’t really having a dig, just trying to make the point that a 1mb pic isn’t that large and is increasingly becoming the norm.[/quote] It still takes time to download. And one point is that if you take the photo, load it into something like Irfanview and then save it again, at exactly the same resolution, it will be considerably smaller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzz Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Probably a good idea to limit what types can be uploaded, BMP's are mahoosive (1024x768 is around 4/5 meg), while JPEGS are normally fairly small, and PNG's are superior in all counts at being good while having an even smaller filesize. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bnt Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 [quote name='tauzero' post='173768' date='Apr 10 2008, 11:04 AM']It still takes time to download. And one point is that if you take the photo, load it into something like Irfanview and then save it again, at exactly the same resolution, it will be considerably smaller.[/quote] Is that because it's a BMP or other uncompressed format, instead of a JPEG? Or do you mean a JPEG quality thing? Not many people know about the second factor, so I should say something about that: You can usually choose the quality setting when you save a JPEG file, and save a lot of disk space (and bandwidth) that way. A typical value is 85%, which is OK, but 95% is usually unnecessarily big. I've taken JPEGs down to 60% and struggle to see any difference, at 1/4 the size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bnt Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 [quote name='phatmonkey' post='175838' date='Apr 13 2008, 08:23 PM']Good idea, i'll stop people uploading BMPs.[/quote] If you do that, I also recommend blocking TIFF (or TIF), the uncompressed format used by Macs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubs Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 Sounds like a good solution (blocking bmp and tif). Realistically you could get a 1024x768 jpeg down to around 100k without losing a lot of the detail and not using any specialist software. Use Paint that comes free with Windows to open the file then re-save as a jpeg - think someone else also mentioned this...it’s a really simple solution but it does really work, and it’s fairly easy to crop and re-size the files too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lfalex v1.1 Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 [quote name='benwhiteuk' post='173740' date='Apr 10 2008, 10:35 AM']...I share an 8mb connection with 5 guys who download copious amounts of HD porn...[/quote] Cool! What basses were they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubs Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 [quote name='Lfalex v1.1' post='176518' date='Apr 14 2008, 06:18 PM']Cool! What basses were they?[/quote] ...erm.....don't think they're downloading 4GB videos of basses being played in HD i could be wrong though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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