On 21 Feb 2003 02:44:39 -0800, nicksw121@yahoo.com (nick) wrote:

>Im having problems changing the photo capture resolution on my

>Panasonic GS4. Ive tried looking through the archives here and cant

>find anything on the subject. The only options I can find are Picture

>Quality > Fine / Normal / Economy, but even with fine the pictures

>still seem to be 640x480. This cant be the best resolution surely?

>

>The instruction manual gives no explanation either. Do digital

>camcorders not give good picture resolution?

640x480 is the "native" resolution-proportion for

NTSC video - and even the megapixel camcorders

that provide for higher stills resolution provide

their best-quality images in terms of noise at

640x480... These are video cameras, not still

cameras, and almost any cheap digital still camera

will surpass the image quality and size offered

by video cameras. Video cameras are useful for

shooting stills for web use only (see for examples:

www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/fs.htm - all these images

began as 640x480 images shot with a good 3-CCD video

camera, and were adjusted in a photo editor...).