Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/25

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Visual compression
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Thu May 25 17:11:37 2006
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>All you RAW addicts, don;t sneer at JPEG compression. An article in 
>the latest issue of Science (Vol 312, Issue 5777) suggests that the 
>eyes 125,000,000 cones and rods activate only 1,200,000 individual 
>fibers in the optic nerve. This is a 10 to 1 compression ratio.
>
>If this is the case, then a 1.2 meg. RAW image contains all the 
>information that the eye can see.
>
>Makes one wonder about the race to higher and higher pixel counts.
>
>Larry Z

But the eye scans the picture and the brain composites and remembers....

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