I often get asked this question and my answer is usually ‘no - because it’s a video file and therefore too big’. I thought it might be helpful to set out the following explanation and then suggest some solutions.
The growth of Smartphones with built in cameras has seen an explosion in the number of high quality digital images we all carry around with us. Generally each of these images is around 2mb which makes for a great print or screen display.
However this growth has not been matched by a corresponding growth in e-mail capacity, mainly due to the network infrastructure. It’s a bit like if we all owned high performance V8 race cars and wanted to drive them at 150km/hour on our suburban streets. The road system just wouldn’t cope (nor would the police!).
So if we want to e-mail these images from our Smartphones, we usually need to restrict them to three or four at the most so that the overall size of the e-mail is no more than 6mb (or so). This is because many e-mail providers and especially corporate e-mail systems, restrict the size of e-mails that can be sent and received. This is dictated by the network infrastructure already mentioned and the size of the e-mail servers needed to store e-mails. Read more ...
