Why do really long exposure photos weigh more MB? Shouldn’t every pixel have the same amount of information regardless of how many seconds it was exposed?
The jpeg format we store photos in is designed to store a good photograph efficiently. A good photo has large areas of smooth, even gradients, and Jpeg does a great job of *compressing* these to take up less space. A long exposure photo will have more random 'roughness' in the picture.
The Short Answer
The jpeg format we store photos in is designed to store a good photograph efficiently. A good photo has large areas of smooth, even gradients, and Jpeg does a great job of *compressing* these to take up less space. A long exposure photo will have more random 'roughness' in the picture. It will be much more *noisy*, with small, random changes in individual pixels. Jpeg is not designed for this, so it takes more space to store the noise.
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Key Concepts: Jpeg, store, designed
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Is there a simple explanation for why really long exposure photos weigh more mb? shouldn't every pixel have the same amount of information regardless of how many seconds it was exposed?
The jpeg format we store photos in is designed to store a good photograph efficiently. A good photo has large areas of smooth, even gradients, and Jpeg does a great job of *compressing* these to take up less space. A long exposure photo will have…
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