> From: Willie Wonka <alienspecimen@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I brought my pictures on a thumbdrive to the photo center at Walmart
> and before started to print, was approached by the girl working
> there, and told that "pictures that come off flash drives come out
> grainy on 8x10, it has something to do with how many times picture
> is transfered through different devices...It is best if you print
> straight out of the camera card"...
>
> So, whats the story...?
I'm certain it has nothing to do with "how many times picture is
transferred."
I'd say, in general, if it comes off a thumb drive, it's much less
likely to be a quality image. It could have been down-sized for email,
or it could have come off a website.
You need 8-16 times more pixels to make a decent print than you do to
have a decent screen image. So if a photo gets re-sized for screen, it
will make a crappy 8x10.
Funny she used the term "grain." That's sorta like calling the
accelerator the buggy whip -- similar purpose, different mechanism.
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