i have a d60 and i was wondering what the difference was between having small medium and large image sizes. Does it make the picture sharper or anything? thanks
The larger the image the greater the detail. In many cases the greater the detail the larger you can print the image and the easier it is to edit photos without losing detail in the edit.
Technically it doesn't make the image any sharper, when we talk about sharpness that's usually a function of the lens and focusing. Semantics I suppose but that's the way it is.
I'd ignore the small and medium sizes in general photography.
They have their uses:
Small is the best bet when doing stop motion work. It's still much higher res than your final output video but having small images makes the rendering much less painful. But how many stop motion videos have you done?
Medium might be of interest if you're in the middle of nowhere and have no spare card. Rather than not take photos, you might want to select medium to squeeze a few images in. No excuse for using it, really. Take spare cards.
You should stick with Large to give yourself the best chance at getting the shot you want - it may need cropping (to fit the 10x8 print size if nothing else) and you have the maximum number of pixels available.
Using smaller pixel-depths doesn't make your pictures sharper. In fact, the camera still uses all the pixels on the sensor but uses jiggery-pokery to produce a smaller image. Jiggery-pokery always degrades an image. Saving in jpg is also jiggery-pokery.
When you choose the larger quality image size, it creates a bigger image file compared to shooting one of the lower (smaller file size) settings. So the "large" setting is best if you are interested in making bigger prints, in this case it can be a "higher quality" image because it has more information (ie detail) to provide for a larger print.
The advantage comes into play if you are going to make a larger print when printing you should stay at 180dpi resolution or higher (300 dpi often preferred).
. 3872 x 2592 (Large, 10.0 MP) - so this is the large in the D60 which comes out to about 8 by 13 inches at 300dpi
. 2896 x 1944 (Medium, 5.6 MP) - this is medium on the D60 which comes out to about 6.5 by 9.5 inches at 300dpi.
So you can see that even going from just large to medium there is a difference. If you are printing in sizes the size of medium or smaller then it does not matter but if you like making really good quality prints bigger then keeping the camera quality high is important.
I even shooting in the RAW (called "NEF" in Nikon cameras) files for my work because it provides me greater quality control on tonal scale, especially keeping highlights proper.
Hope this helps.
Mark
marksablow.com
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