: I need to take publicity photo's (8x10) of my cast. I took photo's with my VX2000 on the 4mb "Memory Stick" provided with the camera. Then I brought them to a digital photo lab in Los Angeles where they told me each picture (JPEG) was only 190KB. "They look great on a computer monitor but in order to make physical prints on photographic paper each picture needs to be close to 18MB." In the VX2000 manual there are 3 quality modes - SUPER FINE (190KB) / FINE (100KB) / STANDARD (60KB). Is there any way to increase the size of the file? Sony does make 64MB Memory Sticks so if I could get the VX2000 to take a picture that was close to 18MB it could fit on a memory stick. I ask because the cost of having a studio take pictures of my cast would be over $1,000 - for that money I could by the Sony F505V Memory Stick digital still camera (3.3 mega pixels). Bottom line - is the VX2000 capable of taking 18MB still photo's??? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
: Please feel free to Email me directly - jdsen12@aol.com
: THANKS - JOHN
The still-photo capability of video cameras is kinda silly
for anything but 320x240 screen images - there just isn't
enough image information in one frame of video to enlarge
onto a paper print. It's kinda like if makers of 8mm film
cameras in the 50's advertised that you could make stills
from each film frame - technically true, but the image
quality would have been so poor that you wouldn't want to
have done it. Sony does make the TRV-20, PC-100, and PC-110
with 1024x??? resolution, but even this is very marginal for
paper prints. Easiest solution: shoot with almost any cheap
35mm SLR loaded with Kodak or Fuji 400-speed negative film
and have a local lab make 8x10/12's...