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Re: Update news on BrickShelf.com
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:12:09 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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But generally, Tim’s rant isn’t against large photos of highly detailed MOCs
that benefit from closer viewing. It is against 5000x7000 photos of blurry,
poorly made pieces thrown together, as if by trained monkeys. Then, when
these horrible pictures are posted again and again by trolls in forums, which
wastes bandwidth with crap.
-Lenny Hoffman
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Ahh. Point taken. The blurry crap pics on BS frustrate me to no end. I know
everyone can’t be a professional photographer, but c’mon...let’s at least get
the subject in focus. :-) I like the idea of cropping. I’ve been doing that
with more and more of my non-LEGO pictures. I never thought of using it to show
details in LEGO MOC’s. I’ll have to give that a shot. For the record, my
screen resolution is 1280x1024 on my laptop and desktop. That’s probably why I
favor the 1024x768 and 1600x1200 pics. It’s all about screen resolution. :-)
-Dave Sterling
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Hi Dave, Lenny has pretty well summed up my argument (although I'm happy with a slightly larger photo size). On the whole I care less about dimensions and more about Kb wastage. With decent jpeg compression you can have a pretty large pic with (...) (17 years ago, 23-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Also not everyone can afford a decent camera. I too agree that Brickshelf should limit the kb size of images and not the resolution. And completly ban all video clips (due to their large size) and also all *.BMP files (whoever decided that the (...) (17 years ago, 27-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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| In lugnet.general, Dave Sterling wrote (...) I can't speak for Tim, but for myself: Pictures on the net should be no smaller than 500 pixels high, 600 is good, 700 is pushing it. I base this off of how large the photo is on my screen. I prefer to (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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