---- Matthew Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm not a pixel-peeper myself, but if people want to peep at pixels, where's > > the harm? A bit like stamp-collecting or train-spotting. > > No harm, and a great deal of benefit. Everyone on this list has > benefited from the work of pixel-peepers. Some of them are at Pentax, > and some of them are at Adobe, and some of them are those one-man > shops who write the plugins you love. Through their labor and > ingenuity, and their desire to make every pixel the best damned pixel > it can be, we all enjoy tools that have exceeded our dreams of 10 > years ago.
Not yet. Not even close. > > There is beauty to be found in mathematics, and optics, and electrical > engineering, and image processing. They have found it, and will > continue to seek it. Whether they are good photographers or bad > photographers or not photographers doesn't matter. Be grateful for > the pixel-peepers. They've worried about this stuff so you don't have > to. > > Sometimes I take pictures. Sometimes I think about chromatic > aberration correction, and whether it would better be done before > demosaicking. And, frankly, I don't need anyone telling me that one > or the other of these pursuits would be a better use of my time. It's > my time. I'll do what I enjoy, not what someone else tells me I > should enjoy. > > Now, please turn to Hymn 317, "Go Tell It on the Focal Plane." > > -- > 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.
