> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Bruce Walker > > A 7 inch screen? About equivalent to looking at your shots as 5x7" > prints. Which are about as cheap as dirt here. And just as much fun to > look at, as far as I'm concerned. > > I see my work on my parents' iPad, which is 10 inches I guess, and > that's too small, though it's nice and crisp. I like the high pixel > density there. > > I want to see my work BIG. I want it to cover a wall, but I'll settle > for 24x36". >
If you want to be able to see the whole picture in one eyeful, at a normal viewing distance a 6x4" is about the right size. Anything bigger means you are only really looking at segments of the picture and having to scan it eyebally. If you print bigger then you have to get further away to see the whole thing. People do like to look at detail, so printing a bit bigger than 6x4 is probably reasonable for viewing at normal reading distances, but much else is essentially pixel-peeping, or behaving like the people in art galleries who peer really closely as if they're examining the brushwork to the exclusion of the picture itself. B -- 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.
