On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 13:17:44 +0900, "Tesselator"
<jimmmboe@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>> http://www.steves-digicams.com/2002_reviews/a40/samples/IMG_0139.JPG
>> http://www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/nikon2100/samples/DSCN0014.JPG
>
>> http://www.steves-digicams.com/2002_reviews/a40/samples/IMG_0161.JPG
>> http://www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/nikon2100/samples/DSCN0001.JPG
>
>> http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/A70/FULLRES/A70INFP1.HTM
>> http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/CP3100/FULLRES/CP31INFFP3.HTM
>
>JPegs...  ;)  You're trying to compare the imaging quality of two
>cameras using jepegged images?  Hehehehe...
>
>Ummm...
>
>Actually I think there are no online resources for you to compare for
>yourself.  You would need someone (who knew what they were doing) to
>set up the cameras with the "as same as possible" settings and fire
>off at almost exactly the same time at exactly the same subject and
>then post clippings of the two resulting images.  I say clippings cuz
>uncompressed images as you know, are huge.
>
>Anyway, you really won't be able to tell anything from jpegs.  Well,
>other than how badly the compression messed up the image.  There might
>be a difference in how well a manufacturer implemented the codec but
>I doubt it.  JPEG has been around for a long long time. It's very well
>known.
>
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I will assume your post was not a joke.

Both of these cameras output jpg files.  If you want to compare the
two then that is all there is.  How do you propose to compare image
quality with out using pictures produced by the cameras?

You may have heard in the past that resaving jpgs can reduce the
quality.  Several years ago I saw a post by someone who heard this and
thought that every time he viewed a jpg id would lose quality and
eventualy "wear out".

You need have no fear about the files wearing out.  When one copies
the file to a website and downloads it there is no added loss in
quality.   The file one downloads is the same as the one produced by
the camera, no loss in quality.