Reminds me of my daughter on the phone a couple days ago: "Dad, someone
sent me a picture in an email that Caitlin (my granddaughter) needs for
a school project. I tried to print it large to fit into her project
binder but it looks awful. What am I doing wrong?"
Mind you, I've explained this to her before but it clearly hasn't sunk
in. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/7/2012 5:17 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 6/7/2012 7:28 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> ...
>> The company I'd be sucking up to in a big way is Samsung. Mobilization
>> (Internet enabled) of photography is the future and there are only
>> three companies that have this mobilization thing really nailed down:
>> Apple, Google and Samsung. ... But until Panasonic figures out that the P&S
>> market is dying very fast without a mobilization product, both
>> Panasonic and Olympus will end up as footnotes in the history of
>> photography.
>
> All true, I suspect. But as usual, the process in early stages is ugly.
>
> I've had three people come to me recently asking me to take 'high resolution'
> photos or portraits for them. At first, I
> was puzzled, as the uses intended didn't require high resolution to my mind.
>
> Then I realized that the extent to which everyday photography has come to be
> done with mobile devices. So people are
> submitting images that are noisy, smeary and often just too unnatural
> looking. By high rez, they simply meant clear and
> clean, not large.
>
> People think a 780 pixel high portrait I downsample from an 18 MP original is
> really high rez.
>
> iPad 2 images looked pretty good on the 'Pad. New iPad images aren't quite up
> to the new display and just awful full
> size. No, not awful in a good way. :-)
>
> I guess the cycle is repeating, the gap in quality between most photographs
> and the few is widening again, returning to
> when the masses took generally awful pics with the likes of Instamatics and
> those with serious equipment and results are
> few.
>
> Highly Resolved Moose
>
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