[Mike McCarty]

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. Actually, I don't think they have, or if they did, they didn't know how to interpret it.

I get curious about the oddest things. I took three photographs each produced thusly:

Nikon D70, ISO 200, JPEG-Fine-Large, each 3008 x 2000 pixels. This is the largest JPEG file produced by the D70.

Each began the test as a virgin file. Each was then saved 25 times (not in photo shop but a wannabe). Each was then cropped to 400 x 600 pixels. I then resized the original image to 400 x 600.

The program would not allow me to save the file unless I had actually altered it in some way. So each time I made an indistinguishable mark before saving.

Each of the large images below are only resized to 400 x 600 and otherwise untouched (except for the one save to resize). The first cropped image represents the virgin file after it was saved 25 times and then cropped to what you see. The second cropped image is the virgin file cropped and saved once.