All the digital cameras are going to the megapixels. I use the photos in a program where I need an onscreen display to be roughly 320x240. Cameras that put out jpeg's in these dimensions are getting harder to find. I have an Olympus 400 but it is a waste of time when I have to reduce the images to the 320X240 size. I have to buy another camera soon and I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to the best camera for taking 320x240 ( or similar size ).

-- Bill Rodewald (willy@fishstick.com), February 07, 1999

Answers

The biggest problem I see is that many of the 320x240 cameras also have lousy color, and hideous JPEG artifacts. (They're cheap all over, not just smaller sensors.) My suggestion would be to use some sort of automated approach to re-scale your images without having to do it manually. Shoot in 640x480 mode with the '400, then shrink them afterward. Photoshop's "actions" would make this trivial, or for a (lot) less money, I believe JASC's Paintshop Pro (PC only) has an option to automate image processing.

-- Dave Etchells (web@imaging-resource.com), February 07, 1999.