The upgraded Epson PhotoPC 500 digital camera holds more images than before and has a snap-on LCD panel to show what you're photographing. It appears that Epson made room for the additional 14 photos by reducing their quality.
Sharper images take up more memory.
The PhotoPC saves natively in Joint Photographic Experts Group format, which allows adjustment of the compression. I compared two shots with two others I'd taken with the older camera-one outdoors without a flash, the other indoors with flash. The subjects were the same, and lighting was similar. When I reduced the dot pitch about four times for the right resolution to print on paper, both sets appeared to be of similar quality. But at a native 72 dots per inch for monitor or World Wide Web page display, the newer images lacked crispness around the edges.