Pictures of the 240

[zguitar71]

Well I got a cable internet hookup so I can download pictures now. I have been wating a long time to do this.

Please check out my gallery, I think there are some pictures still pending approval and I will add some pictures of my funky plaid interior in the near furture.

[Bambikiller240]

Chris:

Was having a dial up connection keeping you from uploading to the website?

carl

[zguitar71]

It was not the dialup it was my patience. It took at least thiry minutes per picture. Quite a few times something would interfere and an error would ocure, then the process would have to start over.

I prefere to be called Christopher, there are a million Chris's out there. I know it is more of a pain to type, Topher is o.k., or even a$$ hole just not Chris. (well maby not A$$ hole).

[Bambikiller240]

OMG, I can sure understand a lack of patience with that issue. What speed modem did you have? I use a 56K modem and pics usually take about 2 minutes each (avg. 100-200Kb image)

Anyway, good to see more pics of your car and the wheels you're using,

[zguitar71]

Well out here in the Boonies (Montana), it runs about the speed of the Pony Express. It was suppesed to be 56K but in reality the speed was around 23K. I am not sure why (not very computer literate) but I was told that, and it was explaned to me but I have since forgotten the expination. 30 minutes was a little of an exageration, in reality it was probably 15-20, now I can load 8 at one time in about 1.5 minutes. I should load 1 to see how fast that is.

[Mike]

It also depends on the size of the images you are trying to upload. You both might be trying to upload different size picts and the time will vary depending on that. A simple way to understand this is looking at the maximum Megapixels your camera is rated at. The more Megapixels, the larger the file. Simply put.. We could get into a huge discussion about image size, quality, compression, color depth, etc etc... But, I'll keep it simple for now..

[Bambikiller240]

Resolution, and file size certainly make a difference, but..........

Even when I upload 500-600 KB images which is right at the max fils size limit it doesn't take more than 8-10 minutes TOPS for an upload.

[Mike]

Yea, but zguitar might be uploading 1.5mb images. That was my point.

[Bambikiller240]

It's possible. It seems that things have changed on the website. In the past the website had a file size limit of around 600Kb for images.

Judging from the file sizes that he's posted to day 100-200Kb, it seems that his explaination of a slower dial up modem speed has something to do with it. It would be unusual to reduce the file size one is sending at the time that one gets a faster connection.

[Mike]

Keep in mind that the server will re-sample all images that are uploaded, so, your interpretation of his actual image size won't be correct.

Here's how it works.... I put a limit on the file size and the image size. I believe the current limits are 2mb files and 1024x768 resolution. The server will then process your file into three different files. Each file is stored as: high res, medium res, and a thumnail. The system will also apply another compression on the images using the JPEG standard at a 90% quality level. I think the system might actually reduce the DPI of the image as well, but, I'd have to check on that one. Most web graphics only need to be shown at 72dpi and cameras store photos at 300dpi.

The system is confiugred this way to allow others to download what they want to see and not have to wait for extra large images if they have a slow connection.

Now, if you process your images and reduce the size before uploading, this will reduce the amount of time needed to upload an image.

[Bambikiller240]

The system is confiugred this way to allow others to download what they want to see and not have to wait for extra large images if they have a slow connection.

Interesting explanation of how the system works. Thanks.

Only one question....Why? We can't download images.

[Mike]

Only one question....Why? We can't download images.

What do you mean? When you click on a thumnail to view a larger image, that's downloading an image. Oh, I think you might be referring to saving an image. Nonetheless, when you click on an image to see a larger representation of it... you're downloading it.

It's all bandwidth man...................