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Posts: 6,648 Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Houston, Texas Real First Name: Jeff Camera: Nikon Can Others Edit My Photos: No iTrader Rating: 4  LIKES Received: 32 LIKES Given: 22 |
12-19-2009, 12:58 AM
I can't help but think "so what". Setting aside the high resolution for a second, if this were a 20mp image, would anybody care? Is it actually a good photograph? I've never really understood the appeal of these 180-degree FOV stitches taken from a rooftop (or anywhere else, really). They're almost never well-composed photographs, just visual gimmicks.
I'm as big of a resolution junkie as the next guy (just ask anybody who knows me), and I love to shoot panos. But to me these multi-gigapixel images mostly seem to be examples of measurebators losing sight of the forest for the pixels.
(Don't take this personally Nick, it isn't directed at you; it's just something that's been bugging me for a while, and your thread happened to be a convenient soap box to step up on).
--------------------------- Jeff Kohn | The Majestic Landscape | Blog | More Images "The capacity to compose images is really the capacity to give coherence to sensed experience" - Robert Motherwell
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