Frank Paris wrote:
> Since I'm new to this list, I've probably missed speculations (or real
> answers) on the following question, but does anyone have an explanation for
> why viewing a slide with 5X loupe on a light table looks far superior to a
> professionally prepared 7.5"X5" print viewed up close of the same slide?
> Obviously, something more is going on than brute force magnification. Is it
> that the printing step loses something no matter what? Or is it that the
> light table is so bright that it closes down the iris in our eyes and
> everything just appears sharper in the bright light? Is it just
> psychological, that the greater density range on the light table vs. the
> printed version just gives the illusion of greater sharpness?
>
When you use a loupe to view the original, that is exactly what you are doing, viewing
the original. Any replication of the image is guaranteed to to lose
some quality, and different methods lose less than others. Losses include sharpness,
dynamic range, saturation, and more.
Jim Snyder
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