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BTW, for those who don't know yet, VGA stands for Video Graphics Array - which was used to call old monitors / graphics cards that support 640 x 480 resolution (On the days of the PC-XT/AT and CGA monitors, VGA was very impressive, imagine that!). Nowadays VGA is used to call displays / cameras that use 640x480 pixels resolution.
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Posted: 2006-04-25 05:12:21
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thanks for the compliments... it sure feels good to be of help to others...
as for blackspot's post, that was the history of VGA (the term is actually used in old monitors to depict a display of 640x480 pixels, 640 characters in 480 lines); it was just adapted for pictures because they both had the same size...
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Posted: 2006-04-25 11:16:32
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thanx 2 both masseur & vrl29 for this information
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Posted: 2006-04-25 13:36:09
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As I understand it, the resolution is most relevant when enlarging or printing the pictures. I've printed pictures from Z600 (0.1 Mp), K700i (0.3 Mp) and V800 (1.3 Mp). When printing on 6"x4" photo paper Z6 pics were a waste of time, K7 were acceptable and V800 were very good, just lacking a little in sharpness compared to my wifes conventional 35mm film camera.
Of course things go downhill when it comes to printing on A4 paper. K7 pics look poor and V800 rate only acceptable. This is where you need a 2.0 Mp or a 3.2 Mp cameraphone.
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Posted: 2006-04-25 13:57:31
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For printing I always consider 175 dots per inch (dpi) to be a good resolution (that's when the picture appears to have a continuous tone). Printing 640 x 480 image to a 6" x 4" output would only have around 107 dpi and as @carkitter rightly described it, it's just acceptable but not really good because at this printing resolution the square pixels are still very discernable.
IMO VGA is only good up to 3.7"x2.7" pictures, 1.3MP for up to 7.3"x5.5", and so on...
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Posted: 2006-04-26 07:24:05
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cif is the most basic camera found on the t610 then vga on the k700i then 1.3 on the s700i then 2mp on the k750i which i have.
soon 3.2
then samsungs 10mp phone.
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Posted: 2006-05-05 21:10:24
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look everyone, in my honest opinion, i think more megapixels is sometimes a waste of time - 1.3mp is enough - 2.0mp looks absolute shit...i believe my pics on v600i with 1.3mp are much better than that of on someones k750i that i've seen! anyway - 10mp is useless, phones are for QUICK pictures, and standalone digital cameras are always going to be MUCH better than that of a camera in a phone!
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Posted: 2006-05-05 21:17:26
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@awave
I don't agree with you, and here's why..
dedicated low-end digital cameras may take better pictures but u won't carry a digital-camera everyday everywhere, in which case ur "almost as good as a dedicated digital-camera" camera-phone will come very handy.
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Posted: 2006-05-05 22:41:35
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