S23 Camera Setting

[152bobby]

I have my S23 camera set at 3:4 50mp, expecting excellent photos and they are.

However, when I take photos of items to sell and upload them to a selling site such as Gumtree UK, the photos are absolutely rubbish, blurred and grainy.

Prior to uploading them, they are absolutely fine in my photo album on my S23.

So is this just Gumtree or should I not have my camer setting on 50mp ? In fact is the 50mp setting the best for every day photos ?

Thanks

[Glenntech · Accepted solution]

Sites like gumtree will compress images, and something like 50Mp will look bad
Try just using a standard lower resolution image that their servers will easier handle. Might actually come out better as less processing will be required.

As for everyday use. That's personal preference and how much memory storage you have.

If you use online cloud storage. Just remember that some of them will have a maximum resolution they will save photos at.

[PaulC59]

A lot depends on how your photos are saved e.g jpeg, and the software used to convert/compress your photos which varies. I don't know if you have HEIF enabled in your camera settings but this may cause problems when uploading as HEIF isn't compatible with everything. 50mp is way too big for web photos so needs compressing a lot e.g eBay have a max of 7mp upload size. 2mp is enough for web pictures so I would aim for around 5mp max for uploading to the web. I use Microsoft outlook for my email and there is a neat trick for quickly reducing photos I use. If you have outlook as your default mail provider on a pc you can select the images you want to compress, right click and choose Send to, Mail Recipient. Outlook will then give you an option to reduce your image sizes where you can choose Small, Medium, Large or keep original size. Once you choose your desired file size click ok. Outlook then compresses all the selected images and attaches them to an email. Obviously you don't send the email but you can just cut and paste all the attachments into another folder on your pc. I do it regularly and it makes a huge difference to file sizes e.g a 20mb picture can go down to around 300kb but still be good quality. However if you don't used outlook there are many other picture managers that can shrink pictures. I hope this helps

[PaulC59 · Accepted solution]

PS the outlook trick works on outlook mobile too, but I generally prefer the pc for messing around with multiple files

[152bobby]

[152bobby]

Is this setting best for everyday photos ?

[PaulC59]

I think that is the default setting which is what mine is set at. I think the recommended setting for eBay etc is 1:1. I tend to prefer having the main file as good quality and compress or crop etc as needed. This is because if the quality of original saved file is high it can be reduced as needed but if the quality of the main file is low it is difficult to significantly improve it afterwards if that makes sense