Thanks cwh2!
"view image" allowed me to view the "larger" image as hosted at Photobucket, but even that is degraded somewhat compared to the image that was originally uploaded. I've noticed that some other photosharing sites such as shutterfly and flickr don't do this.

Yes, I pulled the original image and read the exif; f4.0. Is there a way to read exif's directly from my browser (FF or IE?)