On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not a pixel-peeper myself, but if people want to peep at pixels, where's > the harm? A bit like stamp-collecting or train-spotting.
No harm, and a great deal of benefit. Everyone on this list has benefited from the work of pixel-peepers. Some of them are at Pentax, and some of them are at Adobe, and some of them are those one-man shops who write the plugins you love. Through their labor and ingenuity, and their desire to make every pixel the best damned pixel it can be, we all enjoy tools that have exceeded our dreams of 10 years ago. There is beauty to be found in mathematics, and optics, and electrical engineering, and image processing. They have found it, and will continue to seek it. Whether they are good photographers or bad photographers or not photographers doesn't matter. Be grateful for the pixel-peepers. They've worried about this stuff so you don't have to. Sometimes I take pictures. Sometimes I think about chromatic aberration correction, and whether it would better be done before demosaicking. And, frankly, I don't need anyone telling me that one or the other of these pursuits would be a better use of my time. It's my time. I'll do what I enjoy, not what someone else tells me I should enjoy. Now, please turn to Hymn 317, "Go Tell It on the Focal Plane." -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
