In many of these threads, we have all expressed the joy of such high resolution on our chromes. We have received some great resolution input from many differen t perspectives. I am a little confused of exactly how this chrome resolution tr anslates to printing paper resolution.
For example, it is my understanding that good papers can only hold 3 lpm m of detail. Also from these threads, I have learned that normal human vision c an detect "out of foucs" subjects on paper of 5 lpmm or less. So my first quest ion is, is this apples to apples we are talking about? If all of our eyes consi der 5 lpmm or less "not sharp", than why don't all prints look "not sharp"? The re must be something missing here. Is there any advantage to resolving 70 lpmm to a 4x5 chrome vs. 40 lpm m, if the maximum enlargment desired is 10x? The lower 40 lpmm can resolve thi s to paper 40/10 = 4 lpmm. So where exactly is the advantages of all this expen sive extra resolution? For example, if you shot 2 4x5 shots side by side, with the same film, one with a new modern LF lens and another with a older lens resol ving much less, then made only a 5x enlargement, (well within the reach of each chrome to resolve 3 lpmm to print) could you tell the prints apart when viewed s ide by side? If so,how?
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