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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

The measurements seem out. It's this in thee olde worlde imperial system perhaps?

[–] CheapFrottage 13 points 11 months ago

Ppi is pixels per inch so I’d guess the measurements are in football fields or busses or whatever it is the Americans use at the moment to avoid the metric system

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

what units were used for the print size?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yuck. When will those eternally backwards people learn proper systems of measure?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

We'll do that when metric learns how to have more than 4 factors from one unit to the next higher one.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ew the x-axis shows no unit and the y-axis shows the unit in the tick marks?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I see Print size in X, Camera Resolution is Y, PPI in the boxes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Print size in what unit? Centimeters, inch, bananas?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Inches. Obvious to those that are used to seeing frame sizes in that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Which probably limits the selection to Americans.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

300dpi is the industry standard baseline for printing, 150dpi is not "excellent" it's barely usable without pixelation being visible in the print.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Viewing distance is a big factor with regards to the acceptable resolution, which is ignored here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The film data is way over ambitious. I don't think blowing a 35mm negative up to 16x20 is "superb."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A 50 ISO is great a 800 ISO is shite.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, all of these values are going to depend on a low ISO. You can have 60+ MP but if you're shooting at 3200 ISO it's gonna look shit blown up, less than say 30MP but still your not going to get these numbers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I do wish smart phone manufacturers were competing to increase the MPs in the cameras because I'd love to be able to get some large prints out of the photos I take. But they just wouldn't look as sharp as I'd want them.

And no, I'm not buying a dedicated camera to carry around because I'm not an actual photographer, just a parent taking a bunch of photos of his kids.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Just adding megapixels doesn't give you more resolution, you also need a lens that can resolve the detail which often means a bigger lens.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Cell phone MP can be fake anyway, I have a 48MP one but the fine print is the extra MP are interpolated based on the neighbours so it is basically shitty MP that is algorithmically cleaned up for higher resolution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

This chart is very difficult to read for those with color deficiency - about 8% of men. Good and Fair are nearly the same, as well as Better and Superb. It would have been really easy to just use 5 shades of gray, or 5 colors that are distinguishable in greyscale.