[wastedhours]

> I'm presuming you don't see the need to start with multi-megapixel images.

Might be a fair presumption today, but might not be for the future with hiDPI screens, VR etc... for the relative storage costs, it'd be better to have the original, and then you can programmatically run from there.

[mark-r]

Today's hiDPI screens can already display more detail than your eye can perceive. The issue wasn't about storage costs, it was about transmission costs which still matter for the foreseeable future.

[dboreham]

Perhaps, but I think you can compress current-day phone images considerably without losing any actual image fidelity (because the sensor pitch significantly exceeds the lens resolution, and .. noise).