--- Mike Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Part of the problem here is that area increases so > dramatically with > relatively small increases in dimensions. > > For instance, a 5x7 print is 35 square inches. If > you increase that size by > just one inch in every direction--make it 7x9--you > add another 28 sq. in., > almost (not quite) doubling the area. That means > almost (not quite) doubling > the amount of pixels you need to cover that area. > > So small increases in dimensions mean you need large > additional numbers of > pixels to cover the increase in print area. > > --Mike ____________________________ Yes, but aren't you first and foremost applying slide film protocols and/or digital terms to prints, three entirely different genres? Slide photographers *expect to see their images at 20 x 30 at least. Moreover, slides are many times shown at wall size, where poorly focused or poorly exposed slides can produce headaches and acembarrassmentment.
And the whole idea of saying "pixels" seems somehow odd, since the discussion is about film and not digital images and slide or print film, by their very nature, do not have "pixels", though I understood what you meant. Since the advent of digital imaging, slide terminology has been generally applied to digital images too. So print only photographers, having long ago lost the power to direct terminologylogy and tenordiscussingsing photography to fit prints, now find themselves arguing slterminologyolgy over digital images or prints. That Tht kind of discussion is not only patently unfair, invidiousdous on its face. Talk about mixed metaphors! _________________________ "> So small increases in dimensions mean you need large > additional numbers of > pixels to cover the increase in print area. > > --Mike" Yes, but your inference is that the image "suffers" by the increase. If the image or scene is "intimate", it might, but generally such a small increase in size does not affect the image (or grain) at all. Matt I get it done with YAHOO! DSL! ===== Matt Greene I get it done with YAHOO! DSL!
