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scratch my niche
Playing around with a new DP2 Merrill, one of the really striking things about the images is the resolution/accutance ratio, which produces images with far more detail than any of the other digital cameras I've used.
Undoubtedly there exist cameras that deliver much more than the DP2M in this regard, and the future will certainly bring a lot more. But using it already feels like carrying around a portable "world microscope".
Aside from the technical marvel wonder aspect of the image, I feel pretty ambivalent about the move towards ever higher resolution, and certainly would not let that determine my aesthetic judgment.
In fact, I have a feeling that it may be necessary now to start training our eyes to see against the grain of the quest for ever higher resolution.
Does what I'm seeing/saying here make any sense? I have no pretensions to understand all the issues involved. Nevertheless, as a question of aesthetic judgment, my eyes don't necessarily want all that detail. Instead, what my eyes often want is focus.
Undoubtedly there exist cameras that deliver much more than the DP2M in this regard, and the future will certainly bring a lot more. But using it already feels like carrying around a portable "world microscope".
Aside from the technical marvel wonder aspect of the image, I feel pretty ambivalent about the move towards ever higher resolution, and certainly would not let that determine my aesthetic judgment.
In fact, I have a feeling that it may be necessary now to start training our eyes to see against the grain of the quest for ever higher resolution.
Does what I'm seeing/saying here make any sense? I have no pretensions to understand all the issues involved. Nevertheless, as a question of aesthetic judgment, my eyes don't necessarily want all that detail. Instead, what my eyes often want is focus.