mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Mike Johnston wrote:
>> I disagree. Sometimes, it CAN hurt. Trivial but common example: a
>> photographer makes the decision to throw the background in a portrait out of
>> focus. Less information; better picture.
>
>I disagree, too.  _Not_ less information - the same amount of
>information presented in a different way.

We're looking at different meanings of "information" here. In the technical
(computer) sense, there's just as much "information" in out-of-focus parts of an
image as in the sharp parts, but as far as a human being looking at it is
concerned, there's less information there.

-- 
Mark Roberts
www.robertstech.com
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