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Now, I know different people have different interpretations of the term pixel peeping, and if you can't see the actual pixels, is it really pixel peeping anyway? For me, pixel peeping is around 100% magnification. IMO, pixel peeping is anything past 100%. Pixel-peeping is looking at your photos at 100%, and peeping (looking closely) at the pixels (little dots) in your photos. Pixel peeping is when you go into post processing, usually with photoshop, and you crop/enlarge the photo, 200-400 percent and look at details then. I always look at my photos at 100% magnification. This is NOT pixel peeping in my opinion. Pixel peeping (a term that typically takes on a derogatory tone) is the process of viewing an image at 100% (or greater) in order to examine pixels in minute detail, ostensibly with the intent of looking for pixel level defects. "Pixel peeping" is a derogatory term used to describe people who examine photographic output at the pixel (100%) level. If you view at 200% you are most certainly 'pixel peeping' because that's precisely what you are looking at, pixels, [A pixel peeper] is someone who looks at photos above 100% usually in the 200% range and comments how bad the detail is for that camera or lens. In some cases images are being zoomed in as much as 300 percent or more! That is called Pixel Peeping. If I want to "pixel peep", I need higher magnification, about 500%. Only then can I make out individual pixels with ease. My definition is looking at a image at an almost microscopical level. [viewing] at any apparent size that's greater than the sensor dimensions. In other words, pretty much always except when viewing thumbnails. How can you call it "pixel peeping" if you can't even see the pixels? How is looking at something at actual size pixel peeping, that is what your image is and what it looks like. Let’s be honest here now: pixel peeping is a result of finding a way to evaluate a camera or photo based on science and something that can be put into numbers rather than art. But we need to judge the photograph as a whole, not by peeping at individual pixels.  |