Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I disagree... if you digitize an image, you inherently have pixelation and jaggies ( unless you are 100% sqauare to the image creator ( printer or CRT, for example, and we would all agree that is unlikely). The degree that you can observe that artifact is dependent on your eyes and your brain and the image creator and its algorithms. I may be more sensitive, experienced, trained, or otherwise notice it more than you ( or others) do. But artifacting is always there. Yes, bad creation does create some to a lot of additional artifacting, but artifacts from digitization is there 100% of the time on all digitally printed images. Your last comment is correct. I just do not have to accept, in my photography and enjoyment of others photography, anything I do not like. Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net The only reason you ought see pixelation is that the print is printed at too low a resolution (or the image is acquired at too low a resolution, bit depth or with lossy compression). Same for jaggies and moire patterns. Digital artifacts are nothing more or less than the effect of inadequate resolution, or the application of an overly aggressive algorithm e.g. trying to sharpen a blurry image. The problems you are seeing with digital images are not problems inherent to digital images, rather the compromises made when those prints were made. But then all photographic techniques involve some sort of compromise. Jonathan