Getting My Digital Camera to Take Hi Resolution Pics

[gricerboy]

I've got a Pentax 5 MP camera. Sometimes I take a pic & download it to my desktop & it's 1 or 2 Mb but other times I take a pic and it's 120 k or so & is cr@p. What's happening here, is it some setting or does the camera do it intelligently? My user manual is in Dutch and I don't speak Dutch.

[doodab]

Why don't you try and find an english version of the manual online?

[shaunbhoy]

I've got a Pentax 5 MP camera. Sometimes I take a pic & download it to my desktop & it's 1 or 2 Mb but other times I take a pic and it's 120 k or so & is cr@p. What's happening here, is it some setting or does the camera do it intelligently? My user manual is in Dutch and I don't speak Dutch.

Pray to God it is so!!

[Drewster]

I've got a Pentax 5 MP camera. Sometimes I take a pic & download it to my desktop & it's 1 or 2 Mb but other times I take a pic and it's 120 k or so & is cr@p. What's happening here, is it some setting or does the camera do it intelligently? My user manual is in Dutch and I don't speak Dutch.

it'll never take Hi-Res Pics.... it's only 5MP..... Fool!!!

[Spacecadet]

does the camera do it intelligently?

Clearly your camera is more intelligent than you, it knows it too and is taking the piss.
Take it out to the car park and show it who the boss is.

[Sockpuppet]

Jpeg compression. Or your altering the settings.

[Drewster]

Jpeg compression. Or your...... fiddling aimlessly with knobs and buttons

ftfy

[OwlHoot]

I've got a Pentax 5 MP camera. Sometimes I take a pic & download it to my desktop & it's 1 or 2 Mb but other times I take a pic and it's 120 k or so & is cr@p. What's happening here, is it some setting or does the camera do it intelligently? My user manual is in Dutch and I don't speak Dutch.

Maybe its the light level - In strong sunlight, for example, practically any camera can take clear pictures. But small lenses and low pixel counts show their limitations more in low lighting, such as indoors, or outside after dark.