Comment by snowram

19 days ago

Considering "jpeg" has become the shorthand for "digital picture", it would be a shame not to capitalise on it.

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flexagoon  19 days ago

I feel like "jpeg" has generally become a shorthand for "low quality compressed digital picture"

  • benbristow  18 days ago

    In the photography world it's shorthand for "photo unedited straight from the camera". Popular with Fujifilm cameras especially due to their 'film simulation' modes which apply basically a filter to the image.

  • dylan604  19 days ago

    I feel like you need to find better places on the internet. It's no longer 1997 downloading from dial up.

    • notatoad  19 days ago

      What makes jpeg compression bad isn’t low bandwidth. It’s really good at compressing an image for that.

      What makes jpeg bad is that the compression artifacts multiply when a jpeg gets screen captured and then re-encoded as a jpeg, or automatically resized and recompressed by a social media platform. And that definitely isn’t a problem that has gone away since dialup, people do that more than ever.

    • flexagoon  18 days ago

      I'm not saying it's true, I obviously understand that not all jpegs are low quality and over compressed. That's just how the word is generally used by people, especially those outside of tech who aren't well versed in different image formats.