"Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message
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I did shoot these in RAW with no compression on the RAW. I use a batch
conversion macro in Lightroom (I think), and had it set up 640x480 size
with auto sharpen Landscape. I have never seen a jpg compression ratio, I
thought jpg just compressed it as much as possible. I also have never
used a batch conversion before, and never reduce the size so small, so I
really don't know if this is the result to expect or not.

If you're not familiar with jpeg file compression you may want to check out
the link below. Every time you compress a jpeg file it will lose detail.
It's cumulative and you can't go back. It's always best to work on a copy
so the original retains its detail.

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/for...mythsfacts.htm