Could the maximum image size be raised?

[oneday]

500 KB is tiny these days, much detail is omitted

[Tom in Tucson]

The cost for storing large files has plummeted in the last few years. I think your request for using larger images is very logical, and since the days of using dial-up have all but vanished, this site is way overdue for a timely upgrade.

[DaveW]

To be honest I don't know, so have forwarded your question to Daiv.

Update Daiv replied:-

"Thanks for sending. I'm actually working on the server right now as it is maxing out the CPU usage."

DaveW

[jerrytheplater]

Increasing image size would make it easier to post pictures. It is a bit of a chore to resize and then post.

[DaveW]

We are not alone as modern phones and cameras are now churning out ultra large files which the Web has not kept up with. The BCSS Forum has had similar problems:-

https://www.forum.bcss.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=175314

Basically as I understood it anything of greater resolution than most forum users computer monitors can show is pointless. I have not kept up with things but they used to say in those days that most computer monitors had only had the resolution of an 8 megapixel camera, so no matter how many megapixels your camera had that's all you saw on screen?

I am sure most on here are more computer and photographic literate than I am and can tell us the equivalent resolution of todays average computer monitors and what that means for image size?

[anttisepp]

That's why I can't load my pictures here. If I could get them smaller in my phone...