An entry level camera that captured my heart...

Ben Herrmann wrote:

I obviously looked at his posting with the mindset of a "glass half empty," as opposed to being "half full." So my bad for questioning that.

The "snapshot" scenario is quite simple for several reasons:

1. I never upload the complete full res image as it does no good being forced (when somebody clicks on the image) to view a full-sized image. I typically upload images around 1200 x something or 1600 x something to at least folks an idea that the images can look quite appealing.

Clicking on images doesn't force viewing full-sized images. When you click on an image you're often presented with a slightly smaller image, misleadingly identified as "Fit to screen". This is the first of several tabbed views that you can choose. Others are "1:1 View 100%", "Loupe" and "View Original". I still prefer the method DPR used to display photos several years ago.

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2. I uploaded these images directly from my PC (full size would have been painstakingly slow).

3. And finally, I absolutely loathe this newer method of displaying images that DPReview has incorporated over the past few years. It used to be that if you wanted to link to an image, all you had to do is to cut and paste the image link and paste it directly into the body of your posting. The image would show the way it was intended to - a very simple scenario which allowed image integrity. But unfortunately, now, when you give a quick glance at the images in a posting, they look muted, lacking contrast, and certainly lacking the sharpness that was originally there.

I and many others completely agree that DPR's new way of displaying images in forum posts is really terrible. There's a workaround for the slow uploading of many directly inserted photos. If you upload the photos to your gallery, they can be uploaded on one step, so you don't have to hang around while they're being uploaded. Even better, upload them into a New Bern album, which makes it easier for you to locate them. Then when this is done you can insert the gallery images into your replies and they appear almost instantly, and by default, DPReview shows one of the smaller sizes, but the user can choose any of the gallery's available sizes if they wish. If you go one step further and enable "allow downloads" in your DPR profile, people can see or download the identical file that you uploaded, so there's no image degradation at all. Even better (if your photos included EXIF data), the "Original" from the gallery is the only one that preserves all of the EXIF data, because its a bit for bit identical copy of what you uploaded into your gallery.

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Oh well...you can't have everything I suppose.

Well, at least that's not as pessimistic as "No good deed ever goes unpunished."