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 09/18/2005 10:16:31 AM · #1
I know that every time you save a jpeg there is some loss of data.
But I̢۪ve been looking back at some of my old pictures from five years ago and the quality is crap.
I don̢۪t know if it̢۪s because the quality of my camera and images now are so much better than five years ago or if the quality has actually deteriorated that much.
I know I have only saved them one or two times.
They have been moved around a bit-from folder to folder to cd to new hard drive to DVD to external hard drive etc etcâ€Â¦..but would doing that cause quality loss or does it literally have to be saved for the loss to happen?

09/18/2005 10:19:47 AM · #2
It has to be saved. Copying makes no difference.
 09/18/2005 10:51:01 AM · #3
Most likely, the technology has just improved that much. I try to go through my photos every six months to a year and clean out old ones that I have since reshot. It's amazing when I look back at the shots I took with an old Sony Mavica FD-95 - shots that I thought were amazing at the time now look old, pixelly, grainy, out of focus, and just generally awful.

Five years makes a world of difference in technology. :)

~Savannah
 09/18/2005 10:59:40 AM · #4
I had a Mavica too, were they not wonderfull.... at the time. I look back at them and say "crap". But they are still great memories. I am sure I will say the same in 5 years about my pictures from my Canon "Rebel".
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