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On 01/03/2010, Steven C. Barr wrote: > However, I'm curious...what do you gain (or expect to) by having > your image-file archive "available at the O/S level"...?! Admittedly, > I haven't yet started to use my digital camera (it is a 6MB camera, > which suggests I shall need 6MB +/- for each picture I take and > save...?! > It is probably 6 Megapixels, which at i byte per color would be 18 mBytes. If the image is saved as a JPG, that would compress to about 2 or 3 MBytes per image. > My current computer, purchased at a sale, is probably LESS than "state > of the art" (a constantly increasing target...?!). Since I haven't yet > "taken any pictures" with my digital camera...and thus haven't tried > to save any image files...?!...I'm very curious about this processs > and any complications I should expect...?! > If you are just going to shoot a few hundred pictures - no complications. Save them in folders by date, and use Irfanview's thumbnails display to find them. (Irfanview is free and excellent.) But some of us have a backlog of tens of thousands of images in various formats. Regards -- Don Cox [log in to unmask]