Nice bit of selective quoting. You can look at pictures any size you like, and so can Larry whose 7" screen you poo-pooed. I merely pointed out, in support of Larry's idea, that the optimum size for viewing under normal conditions is closer to his 7" than to your preferred 24x36". This provoked a snarky reply to which I replied snarkily.
However, if you wish to see the whole of your 24x36" picture without scanning then assuming your eyesight is within normal human parameters you will need to view it from a distance of about 8', whether you like that or not. But of course that's up to you. B > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Bruce Walker > Sent: 27 June 2012 22:18 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: This might be a good way of showing off my photos > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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 > > Whoa! That settles it: I'm just going to have to adjust my preferences > now. Here I was cheerfully cavorting around with my wild, unschooled > and untutored ideas about how much I like seeing images bigger when > here it has been formalized -- in print! -- since 1971. > > -- > -bmw > > -- > 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.
