> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > steve harley > > on 2012-06-27 13:34 Bob W wrote > > 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. > > define "normal viewing distance" (preferably with a bell-curve) ... >
Ask Apple: <http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/> They've designed the iPad around it: "Those pixels are so close together, your eyes can't discern individual ones at a normal viewing distance. When you can't see the pixels, you see the whole picture. Or article. Or game. In ways you never could before." For my purposes, on this informal mailing list that isn't a peer-reviewed scientific publication that requires such definitions, it is the distance at which you normally look at photographs. My reference for the dimensions 6x4" - which I offer you even though this is just an informal mailing list rather than a peer-reviewed scientific publication that requires such references - is Harald Mante, Photo Design. Picture Composition for Black and White Photography, trans. E F Linssen SZS FRES FRPS (New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1971), 10 To the best of my knowledge the format of this reference conforms to Chicago Manual of Style guidelines, even though this is just an informal mailing list rather than a peer-reviewed scientific publication that requires such conformance, but if you think I have got this wrong please do not hesitate to point out my error and I will endeavour to correct it. B > i think an iPad is probably the best choice; even versions 1 & 2 (pre- > Retina) have IPS displays which improves off-angle viewing tremendously > compared to most other tablets > > alternatively an Apple TV is only $100 (assuming you already have a > modest flat-panel television); i have "only" a 32" 720p set and an > Apple TV II, but it is probably the easiest, most social way to > casually share photos with friends -- 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.
