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Probably most people don't notice or care, but Facebook introduces so many artifacts into jpegs, there's got to be room for a startup that actually doesn't comp

by ojbyrne 13y ago

Probably most people don't notice or care, but Facebook introduces so many artifacts into jpegs, there's got to be room for a startup that actually doesn't compress the crap out of images.

STRiDEX 13y ago
They would require lots of funding quickly if they were to grow suddenly. Think of the bandwidth and storage. Not cheap.
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cbhl 13y ago
flickr is actually quite popular amongst my photographer friends; artists and doodlers seem to use deviantart. Facebook is a place for photos of people's faces, really. If the artifacts prevent you from seeing someone's face, the picture is probably too small to begin with. Putting other kinds of photos on Facebook (like, say, Cinnabon(TM)) always baffled me, but people do it anyway.
johnrob 13y ago
There's probably room for a startup, but not a very big one. Otherwise it will have to compress the images...
wepple 13y ago
with increasingly decent phone cameras, and everybody seemingly buying a DSLR to start a "Johns Photography" page, facebook will have to respond to this - currently their compression is horrible
- coldtea 13y ago
  >and everybody seemingly buying a DSLR to start a "Johns Photography" page As soon as they find they don't become Robert Cappa or Steve McCurry overnight, that fad will come to pass...
stef25 13y ago
The average Facebooker doesn't know what that is and doesn't care. Just like so many people listen to music on iPhone or laptop speakers, quality seems to no longer matter.
- coldtea 13y ago
  Music on an iPhone with headphones is probably better than what 90% of the people in the eighties/nineties ever heard. CD systems' speakers (when not Hi-Fi) have worse sound than middle of the road headphones, and cassette had like 8 bit definition (and noise, wow, flutter and other nice stuff to degrade the sound).
coldtea 13y ago
Yes, and then, with storage getting cheaper, Facebook compresses its jpegs less, and there goes that startup down the drain...

by ojbyrne 13y ago

Probably most people don't notice or care, but Facebook introduces so many artifacts into jpegs, there's got to be room for a startup that actually doesn't compress the crap out of images.

STRiDEX 13y ago

They would require lots of funding quickly if they were to grow suddenly. Think of the bandwidth and storage. Not cheap.

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cbhl 13y ago

flickr is actually quite popular amongst my photographer friends; artists and doodlers seem to use deviantart. Facebook is a place for photos of people's faces, really. If the artifacts prevent you from seeing someone's face, the picture is probably too small to begin with. Putting other kinds of photos on Facebook (like, say, Cinnabon(TM)) always baffled me, but people do it anyway.

johnrob 13y ago

There's probably room for a startup, but not a very big one. Otherwise it will have to compress the images...

wepple 13y ago

with increasingly decent phone cameras, and everybody seemingly buying a DSLR to start a "Johns Photography" page, facebook will have to respond to this - currently their compression is horrible

coldtea 13y ago
>and everybody seemingly buying a DSLR to start a "Johns Photography" page As soon as they find they don't become Robert Cappa or Steve McCurry overnight, that fad will come to pass...

stef25 13y ago

The average Facebooker doesn't know what that is and doesn't care. Just like so many people listen to music on iPhone or laptop speakers, quality seems to no longer matter.

coldtea 13y ago
Music on an iPhone with headphones is probably better than what 90% of the people in the eighties/nineties ever heard. CD systems' speakers (when not Hi-Fi) have worse sound than middle of the road headphones, and cassette had like 8 bit definition (and noise, wow, flutter and other nice stuff to degrade the sound).

coldtea 13y ago

Yes, and then, with storage getting cheaper, Facebook compresses its jpegs less, and there goes that startup down the drain...