Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Since the Leica Users Group consists of people who use both computers and Leicas, and who are interested in image quality, I believe this all to be on topic. Flat panel displays do not have an adjustable resolution. Their pixels are installed at the factory. If the display has a resolution of 1600x1280, that means that there are 1600 columns of pixels in 1280 rows, and that's the way it is. If you ask for a screen size that is different from what is built in, various compromises can be made, but all of them will damage the image quality. CRT screens are more complex; they do and they don't have built-in image resolution. A color CRT has a "shadow mask" whose purpose is to keep the three beams collimated, and that shadow mask places some restrictions on where the pixels can be. Trinitron-style shadow masks have more flexibility horizontally than vertically. Every display device has a resolution at which it looks the best. Flat panel displays are more or less unusable at other resolutions; CRTs can adjust more readily. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html