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**Giftzwerg**

In article ,
says...

Before digital cameras only people working in their own darkrooms studied
their negatives and slides with a good powered loupe. Usually only 5x, 8x,
or at the most 10x power.

I can't find the URL now, but I recall a thread at DPReview.com where
someone posted some scanned images he'd taken with a Leica over the
years - blown up to the same magnification as the "100% crops" the
pixel-peepers are always ogling. It was amazing what passed for a
"sharp" image when the standard was viewing an 8X10 print rather than an
absurdly-magnified sliver of the image.

--
Giftzwerg
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"It isn't conservative rumors or lies that are stopping healthcare
legislation; it's the justifiable alarm of an electorate that has been
cut out of the loop and is watching its representatives construct a
tangled labyrinth for others but not for themselves. No, the airheads of
Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us
guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves."
- Camille Paglia