I was trying out some things on my old Sony camera.  I wanted to see if using the lossless mode at a lower resolution would in fact be better than jpg at full resolution.  With this Sony, you really have to scale the image by 50% to get the kind of clarity my Canon can give you unscaled.  The reason is simply that the sensor and lens are only so good in a compact camera.  But in the end it didn't make any difference.

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