Does ANYONE actually look at the full sized gun pics?
 

Just wondering. I like to 'drill down' and click on the gun pics to see them FULL sized. Which is why I've been making the original gun pics I take pretty large. But I've noticed that the vast majority of viewers only look at the smaller thumbnails. I even asked people, and some of them don't even know that you can click on the image until it gets to maximum size.

To save space, should I start making the gun images smaller? If people only look at the 600px thumbnail, then why make it any bigger? And save IMFDB some server space?

This?
http://www.imfdb.org/images/6/62/Mauser_1908.jpg

or this?
http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/6/...auser_1908.jpg

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This?
http://www.imfdb.org/images/3/37/Spr...45Tactical.jpg

or this?
http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/3/...45Tactical.jpg

This is not a scientific survey, just wondering what folks thought.

I would keep them full size, that way if you're comparing two similar guns, you can see the details and differences better.

I agree! That's how I teach myself to distinguish between weapons when the visual differences aren't obvious from looking at the smaller thumbnails. It's how I learned to distinguish the differences between the gazillion different FAL/L1A1 clones and the Ruger P-series pistols (P85 vs. P89 vs. P90), for example. Even when there's a visual description of the differences between variants/derivatives on the gun page, being able to reference high-res images helps me in committing those differences to memory.

It may be true that most IMFDB users never bother to look at the gun pictures in high-res; they either don't know this is possible, or don't care. But the same applies to the movie/TV screencaps. You might as well ask, why bother posting Blu-Ray and HDTV images if the typical IMFDB user will never reap the benefits by enlarging the image to full-size? (and in thumbnails, high-def screencaps rarely look much better than DVD screencaps)

Also, hasn't Bunni said that server space isn't a huge issue? That doesn't mean we shouldn't clean up the server by ditching unused files (it's a good habit to get into), but I'm not sure we need to obsess over it.

I do. It's a weird habit I have. :o

Uh, no one is obsessing over anything. It was just a question.

I say continue with the big pics, I still use them.

KEEP THE BIG PICS, because your gun images are so high-resolution you have brought IMFDB the highest quality gun images that ANYONE will be able to find in the entire interwebs. To make them smaller will only make this site's custom taken gun images inferior to google images!

-RANT END

Keep'em big. Storage is cheap. :)