Re: [CBQ] A request regarding attachments

["Chris Atkins tcatkins@gmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Thank you all for your feedback. As I mentioned before, I got the same results as you - although they were different than the results I had gotten 6 hours earlier where the photo I downloaded following the same steps had been reduced to only 800 wide.

I guess it's just a matter of the extra three steps and 2 applications needed to see the images than before, but at least the high resolution photos are there to be seen in all the scanner's original glory.

As far as whether Yahoo Groups is a safe place to archive photos long term, I wouldn't bet on it. Too many of Yahoo's services, like bookmark tool Delicious, just get dropped. If the photos were being stored in Flickr (another Yahoo property) then I'd say we had a good chance, but if Yahoo decides they want to drop Yahoo Groups, then all those large photos you didn't click on and save are gone. There isn't any way to batch download photos, so when the time comes to abandon ship, resurrecting a backup is going to be a one photo at a time, three click procedure.

Thanks again,

Chris Atkins
Argyle, TX

On 2/16/15 6:02 PM, Chris Atkins tcatkins@gmail.com [CBQ] wrote:

 

Something seems to have changed since my experiment this morning because even though the image on Yahoo's page was only 800 wide, as Tim predicted, the file was downloaded at full resolution.

Chris

On 2/16/15 5:56 PM, Chris Atkins tcatkins@gmail.com [CBQ] wrote:

 

Tim and all,

Here is a 6171x1372 scan of a photo of Billings, MT. It has 1.1MB file size. I think this is a great example of why someone would like a high res photo since details can be seen when zoomed in.

I'm curious to see what Yahoo does with it.

I'll see if I can find the image of CBQ #4961 that you mentioned. The one I downloaded from a link in Hol's email earlier was only 800 wide.

Chris

On 2/16/15 3:25 PM, Tim O'Connor timboconnor@comcast.net [CBQ] wrote:

 

Chris, the large images are still there as far as I can tell. I've never
heard of Yahoo compressing the images -- I've sent images to other groups
and to Flickr and they've never been compressed.

Can you give an example of one of the photos someone sent since we changed to
link attachments, that is not seen in its original resolution?

When I click on the download icon on the photo (whether in Photostream
or whatever) it opens a pretty darn large image -- my screen is only 1980x1200
so there's really no point to a 4000x4000 image unless the clarity is perfect,
and none of the images I've pulled up looks perfectly clear at that resolution.
Most of them look sharp enough for me at my screen size.

I just downloaded a shot of CBQ #4961, resolution is 2100 x 1238. This was sent
by Hol on Feb 13th -- https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CBQ/attachments/241635342

I also downloaded a shot of a beet dump from this message also from Feb 13th.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CBQ/attachments/384247172

This file is gigantic -- 14 megabytes, 6428 x 4056!!! I'm very glad not to have
images of this size stuffing my inbox!

Tim O'Connor

>One of my favorite things about this group, other than the subject, has
>been the magnificent high resolution images that contributors like Hol
>and others selflessly shared. Because Yahoo allows large attachments,
>many of these images are well over 4000x4000 pixels, which looks
>fantastic on any monitor.
>
>Anyone know how to access the original high resolution photos?
>
>Chris Atkins
>Argyle, TX

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