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Jman13 wrote:
I guess we will. I can't imagine what distance you're looking at these prints from where you would actually think that looks bad, but perhaps your eyes see things mine do not, or you are just innately more bothered by a lack of insane detail at all viewing distances. There's nothing wrong with that, but I guess I can't understand where you're really coming from, and we'll have to leave it at that. I did try this morning, though to see if I was just fooling myself.
Not trying to continue the discussion, but since you have explained your view in a way I can understand and accept, I may owe you a better explanation of where I am coming from.
Prints with medium resoltuion, in the order of 180 ppi, really bring out to me all the detail there is in an image. I don't need to go really close to see every detail. And if I go close, I don't see more detail, just that there isn't more to see. Prints of the same size with high resolution, 360 ppi, give that very satisfactory feeling that the prints still has more to give. To you, it may be a waste of fine detail, to me it is a qualitative bonus.
Besides, even at normal viewing distance, prints with detail beoynd what we can readily discern, givel another quality to textures than prints where you can see all the details. To check if I fool myself, I downloaded that full size sample from the Nikon website, the one with the model wearing a purple/violet top, and with the leopard. I printed at 360 ppi, which gives approximately 21x14" size. Then I downsampled to 16 MP, which gives a 240 ppi print at the same size. When printing at either 240 or 360 pp with my printer driver options set to "finest detail" there is no interpolation before the raster processor in the printer. They were also sharpened only with a small radius, but different radius for both sizes, so that the acutiy of both prints became equal.
From a normal distance, the leopard fur does look more harsh with the 240 ppi print. If I go closer, I don't see any less detail in the fur at 240 ppi, just that it is a tad more "crunchy". The violet top looks more silky smooth with the 360 ppi. The 240 ppi print from a distance actually seems more detailed, more textured. When going close, I see that some of the true detail have been lost, and in some spots there is a false pattern created by the insufficient resoltuion. This false pattern gives the illusion of more detail, and does not render the feel you would get from looking at that fabric in reality.
These differences may seem silly to care about, but if I can get that little extra bit of quality into my prints without moving to medium format, I am happy about that.
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