ISO320, f/4.5, 300 2.8 IS + 1.4x TC II, ACR 5.6, 100% crop:
WOW, I just noticed something, this didn\'t seem as sharp as I remembered, even though I even tried using the smugmug \"-O\" extension so I compared to the original JPG and it is NOTICEABLY less crisp! It seems like smugmug has gone to forceably recompressing all images or something Or maybe they still store the original and use the for printing and downloads but simply dont allow -O linking for posting to webpages or for display anymore, even if you manually type -O now it still uses -X3 or something
You know I thought for the last few months some of my posting of details shots hadn\'t had as much impressive detail as I had thought and well this might explain it. Wow, it would be unfortunate if smugmug doesn\'t allow true original linking.... I think the others do.
Unless maybe manually renaming it -O meant it recompressed the -X3 trying to make an -O which it didn\'t call the original because it was not big enough I need to compare with -O vs -X3....
nope they both look noticeably filtered! So smugmug has begun pulling fastones Or what is going wrong?
anyway it seems like smugmug may no longer be useful for 100% crop comparisons or demonstrations....
this stinks, otherwise I had been really liking smugmug....
just compared it again and it\'s like the image was taken with two different cameras, the smugmug version that you see when you read this posting is very definitely softened and blurred compared to the original!
Jan 23, 2010 at 08:27 PM
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Or maybe they still store the original and use the for printing and downloads but simply dont allow -O linking for posting to webpages or for display anymore, even if you manually type -O now it still uses -X3 or something