Do you shoot Superfine or Fine?

[av8er23]

I have taken pictures at both Superfine and Fine compressions. The file size difference is like 5 megs to 3 megs with my 7.0pix
I cannot tell any difference when shooting in Superfine. I do however shoot at the highest resolution that the camera offers.

What mode do the rest of you canon guys use?

 

[hlsooner]

Superfine, less compression leaves more to work with.

 

[av8er23]

I understand that it is less compressed but if there is no visual difference why do it. I commonly crop my underwater photos to center fish or cut out some unwanted items but I am not sure it is worth the extra memory to shoot superfine. i shoot with a 2 gig card which is reasonable size. it will allow for 647 pics and that is plenty but my problem is I like to do a little video too. I know the next suggestion is to buy a bigger card or more memory but is it really nessary?

 

[f3nikon]

Blow up or zoom in on the Superfine and Fine pictures, then see if you notice a difference.

 

[jarhed]

Memory is relatively cheap.

When you photoshop a jpeg, you will loose quality, I use 4 gig CF cards in my camera (~$80 each) and I just picked up 250 gig external seagate harddrive for just over $100 to store pics.

I always shoot high quality jpeg + RAW so I have the maximum flexability to post process a photo and allow me the best possible quality of picture to hang on a wall.

In my mind, a few extra bucks is a very fair tradeoff for that degree of flexability.

IMHO,
John

 

[zahner]

i always use superfine since storage space is not an issue for me.

 

[av8er23]

Do you guys do any video clips?

 

[zahner]

Do you guys do any video clips?

once and a while, but I find the quality to be not worth it. I am currently using an SD500 and the video doesn't seem focus well underwater.

 

[Willar]

I do turn down the quality to Fine on occassion. There is a savings in that helps response time and reduces storage requirements. It just depends on whether YOU are satisfied with the resulting quality. If you aren't doing much editting or enlargements then FINE could be just fine! (sorry, I couldn't resist!) For 8x10 prints or smaller Fine will do the job.

 

[CompuDude]

I shoot fine 90+% of the time. I'm not printing any posters, and I really don't see enough difference to nearly double the storage requirements. (I'm not worried about on-chip storage generally, but more long-term storage... 100 dives or so a year, 1 gig+ per dive day, adds up quickly into full hard drives!)

And yes, I shoot video clips quite frequently, at least one or two per dive, sometimes more if there is something worth filming. (Sea Lions in poor vis come to mind, as they are very tough to shoot but lots of fun to video.)