Message-Id: <mailto:199506110200.TAA29402@listserv.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 12:41:43 +0000 From: Frank Dunn <mailto:frank@BRAZEN.DEMON.CO.UK> Subject: Re: 5 Photo CD resolutions To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
>Correct me if I am wrong. When you store photos on a photo CD, you can
>store around 100 pictures / CD. 5 resolutions are used. What if only 2
>resolutions are used? Only the base and the 16xbase (hi-res) picture? Can
>this be done and if this can be done, does that mean more photos can be
>stored on a CD?
The 16 x base image requires the 4 x and base images to be recreated within
the ImagePac. You could however extract the base & 16 x base images and
write them to other media. We usually do this for the 16 x base image,
which is then JPEG compressed at high quality (Q 85 ish) and written to
hard disk - well a 30 Gb RAID array actually...
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