11-22-2011, 05:01 AM
Neither I nor my clients in the minerals industry have any use for prints or paper. We look at my macro pictures of mostly flat-ground surfaces of rocks and minerals on a monitor. The last thing we want is something that would look great from 20 cm on a 1-metre sheet of paper but fuzzy at 100% on a monitor. We need a good compromise between resolution and per-pixel sharpness. 12-15 Mpx on APS-C seem to give the best compromise, so 30-35 would be fine on FF (but only with the best lenses, such as the Sigma 70, not the Canon 100f2.8L with its inferior border resolution).
For most kinds of photography, the expense, waste of resources, and inconvenience, of printing at the high resolutions now possible means that we will view the detail available in the great majority of our pictures only on a monitor.
For most kinds of photography, the expense, waste of resources, and inconvenience, of printing at the high resolutions now possible means that we will view the detail available in the great majority of our pictures only on a monitor.