Thanks for that, Paul! That's logical and I'll personally continue to NOT do those things. ;)
Jack --- On Mon, 6/21/10, P N Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > From: P N Stenquist <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Cropping and Noise (?) > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, June 21, 2010, 7:00 AM > Cropping in itself won't add noise. > But if one crops to a smaller image area and then upsizes > the shot to the previous dimension, any noise that was in > the original will be magnified. Also if working with jpegs > rather than tiff file copies, recompression could leave some > artifacts, but I doubt tney'd be visible at web sizes. > Paul > On Jun 21, 2010, at 9:43 AM, Jack Davis wrote: > > > When I'm current on the PDML list, I sometimes take a > few minutes scanning dpreview. This AM I looked at a shot > that received some criticism for including extraneous > elements better cropped off. The contributor cropped as > suggested (one side of a vertical, as I remember without > going back to it) and re-posted. The original critic > responded with, "better, but the image now exhibits noise > generated from the cropping." Followed by the suggestion > there had been an excess of same. > > PS'g noise generation? Hadn't noticed. > > > > Jack > > > > > > > > > > --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. > > > --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. > -- 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.

