on 2012-06-27 14:42 Bob W wrote
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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 don't have a bell curve; that is one of my big beefs with Apple; i do know
about the "retina" claims, but the angle of view for individual pixels seems to
be a pretty different criterion than "seeing in one eyeful" (an attractive idea
but i wonder how measurable or even necessary it is)
in any case i am skeptical that there is one normal viewing distance, but if
the concept is used it ought to be defined
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
sounds like an interesting book, but it's a little hard to find (i did request
an interlibrary loan) — but what's his definition of normal viewing distance?
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