Thanks for that link, Charles.
I agree, Charles. I too lament the days when whatever resolution I chose to post at would be the size it appeared. Since this auto-resizing to 1000 pixels wide began just over a year ago I have taken great care to crop and process any pictures I have to show to best advantage at 1000. The only way to 'defeat' it is to rotate photos 90 degrees so that 1000 is the smaller pixel dimension. I'd like to at least see a return to 1200 pixels wide...
The current 1000 limit works out ok for Picture Of The Day magazine adverts so that there is adequate 'print-worthy' sharpness detail.
I habitually download a goodly number of members' picture posts for my personal Reference Archives.
But as we've seen, many fellers can't figure out how to re-size their pictures, which led to photos too small and fuzzy to be of value (when reprocessed and magnified) on a large monitor or enormous photos from cellphone cameras that necessitated horizontal scrolling to view, that was annoying to some (didn't bother me if I downloaded the jpeg).
Image-intensive threads and posts made the site slower to load on older machines and I imagine the server storage strain and download traffic on the site became a financial concern.
Time & progress marches on, computer power increases, People are upgrading to wide-screen monitors and laptops, internet connections are speeding up, digital cameras can capture at desk blotter sized hd mega-pixel dimensions and I for one greatly appreciate print-worthy images...whether a brochure, owners manual, scanned advertisements or glamor shots of members' prized treasures.
I treated myself to a new desktop mainframe monitor for Christmas, a 24" ACER S243HL (on sale at $189 at Staples) set at max resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and fully expect that my new MacBookPro, when I order it, will be a 17" antiglare screen model.
But I will add that our Vacuumland is by far the best source of sharp clear and informative imagery of the hobby, for which I thank the creators and administrators.
Rick, super duper picture photo framing, focus & lighting. I think, like me, that you take several too many shots to be able to choose the best for the purpose.
To demonstrate how picture height is irrelevant to posting interesting detailed pictures I shot this pointless one with flash in a room with the lights off, thus the graininess. I really need to get the accessories more attractively organized after I create two more bays for Can Lux Z50 series cylinders.
Dave
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