Can anyone tell me please if the HD video clips produced by some compact cameras can be burnt on to a DVD and played in ordinary domestic DVD players?

John

Many thanks for your comments, John. For my situation, I thought that on-line storage would be easier. I wouldn't worry too much if the site closed down (as long as I knew!) as I would keep my existing set up as well.

One site even claims that soon, computers will be sold without hard drives as everyone will be using their site. I don't think so!

Regards

John

Does anyone use an on-line back up service? I currently have 18,500+ images which need 15Gb and am becoming increasingly nervous about the possibility of a domestic fire or theft of my laptop containing the files or my two external hard drives. I have looked at one or two on-line sites such as Skydrive but they all seem to reduce the image size presumably to speed up the uploading process. Can anyone recommend a free or reasonably priced on-line service (eg £30-£40 a year) that stores images without reduction in size?

Hi, Pete.

I use the 10mp K10D, but take most shots at 6mp, mainly to save hard disk space. (I take a lot of photographs!) I notice little difference between 6mp and 10mp for normal family or hobby shots on the computer screen or in an A4 print, although if someone asked me to photograph their wedding, for example, obviously I would use 10mp to be on the safe side.

Where 10mp is really useful is when you need to enlarge a cropped portion of an image. I was out today photographing birds at a wildlife reserve and, although I was using a Pentax 55-300, shooting at 10mp enabled me to enlarge the centre of each image in Photoshop. It's amazing how quickly the pixels fall away when you crop an image.

6mp will give you reasonable results with a sharp well exposed shot at 10x8, but I would go for 10mp for the reasons stated. Hope this is useful.

Regards, John