Eventide: Images from the Edge

If you ever could see a five megapixel image – resolved without error – you'd be blown away.

You don't often see this because camera lenses are far from perfect 

Even very expensive lenses.

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(Web images are down-sampled to one MegaPixel)

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This is not the fault of optical engineers.

Lens design is a labor of endless compromise
never resulting in the ‘perfect’ lens or the ‘perfect’ image.

In the old days imperfections were hidden through darkroom trickery.
Today they are hidden through elaborate digital image-processing.

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When constructing a digital image, the camera stabs at the mess as fast as possible.

Colors and contrast are balanced.
Localized sharpening algorithms are applied.

Unsharp image detail is manufactured from clumps of nonsense.
Contrasting edges are pin-striped dark along one side and light along the other.

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Ten-megapixel cameras construct detail from data smeared across a hundred pixels..

Five-megapixel cameras construct the same detail from fifty.

After image-processing there is no observable difference.

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Nothing can be done to recover lost data.

Intensive image-processing can only derive a reasonable facsimile.

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Every image in this gallery is a reasonable facsimile.




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High-resolution archival LightJet prints are available:

13 x 16 --  80.00
19 x 26 -- 150.00
26 x 32 -- 250.00
35 x 54 -- 450.00

Available print sizes are subject to the artist's discretion.

Contact KenRamsley@gmail.com for ordering information.

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