
Originally Posted by
Tom Graham
Thanks Jamie. My post #2 is the NEF file, no cropping, converted to JPG. That is, the original 3880px wide NEF was converted to jpg and I resized it for here. Looking at it can you tell if it (#2) has good IQ? There is no close detail (in #2) such as hair that has enough pixels when compressed to that size (1024). Even if I put up the NEF converted to JPG remaining full pixel width, (3088px), would detail such as hair be larger than one pixel? If not we aren't going to see it. Sort of like, if I take photo of a bird nest 1000m away (with a 300mm), will I be able to see the individual twigs making the nest?? (Or even the nest!!). Perhaps I'm not understanding the theory behind this?
Tom
ps - what is Image Quality anyway?? How do we know it when we see it?