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Resizing of Market Force pictures no longer required

August 27, 2015 05:16PM
For those of you doing the gas station shops (or others?) that required your pictures to be under 2 GB, this appears to be no longer the case. Just submitted a report with some 4-5 GBs. One less PIA.
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August 27, 2015 05:39PM
That is a welcome piece of news. That is the worst part of these otherwise easy shops.
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August 27, 2015 08:27PM
2-5 GB pictures? The resolution of those pictures must be insanely large!

Shopping the Greater Denver Area, Colorado Springs and in-between in Colorado. 33 year old male and willing to travel!
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August 27, 2015 09:42PM
There are no MF gas station shops by me, but I did an MF shop today.. I've never resized my pictures before submitting. But the one thing I like about MF reports is that they resize the photo for you, you just have to click resize after uploading. I wonder why they took the limit off that gas station one but the one I did today still had it. Anyway, it's easy to resize when they system does it for you so I don't mind.
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August 27, 2015 09:45PM
Gee, that seems real smart of MF with a system so challenged it takes a long time just to turn a page to answer the next question. . .[NOT]
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August 27, 2015 10:42PM
I don't do gas station audits, but have done other audits for MF and never resized a receipt scanned in at 300 dpi on my scanner or had to resize a photo that was taken at 5 MP.

I have super fast Internet and it's never been an issue for me.

The only time I had to resize photo's to some ridiculously small size was for Maritz. I think they wrote the website when they were still sending AOL disks in the mail on 3 1/2 floppies and 640 x 480 on a dialup connection with Netscape browser v1.0 would take a long time to send. tongue sticking out smiley

I saw shop instructions recently that the customer wanted the food photo's taken with no less than a 3 MP camera and preferred 5 MP. I'm thinking they wanted to count the pieces of celery in the potato salad.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/27/2015 10:44PM by scanman1.
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August 28, 2015 12:27AM
Food shots I do my digital camera with 16MP and yes, they can see the small drips and count the rice grains if they so choose.
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August 28, 2015 12:36AM
@Flash wrote:

Food shots I do my digital camera with 16MP and yes, they can see the small drips and count the rice grains if they so choose.

At 16 MP, they can lift a fingerprint off the edge of the plate and see if it was the cook or the sever who didn't wipe it down before it hit the table on a high end dining shop. grinning smiley

Never ever touch the plate or bowl on a fine dining to position it for a shot as you may place a fingerprint on the item. They want to know how many inches it is from the edge of the table and if it is positioned evenly with the silverware and stemware. For a low end shop with photos, I may move the plate by touching it on the bottom side and rotating it and sliding it from my partner to my side of the table for a better shot. This beats standing up or holding my phone across the table and way up in the air to get a shot of my companions dish. If they walk away and the coast is clear, sometimes I will stand up and get a good straight down shot of my companions plate/bowl.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/28/2015 12:37AM by scanman1.
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