Unless hawkeye Moose is doing the viewing.
Chuck Norcutt
Ken Norton wrote:
>> Is an 11 Mpix sensor big enough with make a 48" wide image with more than
>> enough fine detail to withstand careful up close scrutiny ?
>
>
> If the edge-sharpness is there, the answer is a resounding yes!
>
> All this talk about maintaining 300dpi for printing is a bunch of hogwash.
> The eye is able to discern a line at 300dpi, but is unable to see anything
> else down there.
>
> To prove me wrong, do the following:
>
> Make an image file in your editor of choice and create a pattern of 1 pixel
> wide vertical black and white lines. Print this at 300dpi. Can you see the
> pattern? Let's go one step further. Add horizontal black lines. This
> should give you 1 pixel white dots surrounded by 1 pixel of black. Can you
> see the dots?
>
> Now, start scaling the images up to 200dpi on the printed page. Then try
> 150dpi. Even try 75dpi.
>
> At 150dpi the human eye is easily able to discern the lines and dots
> (provided that the scaling engine didn't blur things too much), but just
> barely. If the edges of the lines remain sharp and not blurred, the detail
> is maintained to the maximum of what the human eye is comfortably viewing.
>
> Now comes the fun part. I hope that the three prints are identical.
> Randomize the prints and grab one and guess which one is at which
> resolution. Hand the 150dpi print to another anal-retentive photographer
> and ask him/her what resolution it was printed at.
>
> Folks, when tests like these are performed without bias, you'll find more
> times than not that the lower-res image looks exceptionally sharp and highly
> detailed.
>
> AG
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