Earlier this week, Canon announced that it's developing a new DSLR that captures a staggering 120 megapixels. If you're interested in purchasing one if/when it hits the market, here's a tip: start stocking up on memory cards NOW.
You'll need a huge amount of storage space because the RAW files captured by the camera take up 210 megabytes each.
On Monday, we shared that Instagram had begun quietly storing larger 1080px versions of photos, up from the 640px resolution of the past (when the service launched the size was 612px).
Instagram has now confirmed the resolution increase across its photo-sharing service, and says that the change will improve the quality of photos while having minimal impact on file size and data usage.
If you've been following PetaPixel for a little while, then you know that the idea of a web app that shrinks down the file size of your images without "noticeable" loss in quality is nothing new. JPEGmini has been doing it for years. So what is it that makes the new Compressor.io web app stand out?
Back in August we featured a service called JPEGmini, which gives anybody the ability to shrink their photos up to 5-times in size without any visible quality difference -- a substantial claim, but one that the service seemed to live up to quite well (we use it regularly).
While looking into the new compression service JPEGmini yesterday, the following statement caught my eye in an interview they did with Megapixel:
[...] sometimes you increase the quality setting in Photoshop and the actual quality of the image is reduced...
I had never heard of that before, so I decided to dig a little deeper.
Something you may have noticed when adjusting your camera’s ISO setting is that as you increase ISO, the number of …