My favorite lens (so far) - the EF 135mm f/2L USM

Jonathan Brady wrote:

*all images have been downsized to 1920 pixels on the long side which will fill up an HD display. If you want to pixel peep at 1:1 at full resolution, sorry. Photography ain't about that.

Except that your images look *far* *far* better only when viewed at 100% (after your downsizing), and look *much* worse if you view it and allow the browser or DPReview web scripts to resize accordingly.

So it is important that your images be viewed at the full resolution that you have produced for web display purposes. This is very important actually as a lot of people do not realize how much impact images can lose if *you* do not take absolute control on how you present your *final* image. A downsized image with proper resampling and post sharpening will look far better than even a full-size image mucked up with web/javascript resized output or even a full-size image that is too big for the end display (and thus they just see a small portion of the frame that they need to pan around again losing visual impact).

Anyone who buys high MP cameras and sharp lenses but does not pay attention to careful *end* display or print is a doofus and have no idea of how much MP or how sharp a lens they really need.

There are some images where the dpreview resize photo and the 'original' doesn't make a huge difference (and often its because the person posting the photo hasn't really optimized the final output to really have that extra pop and polish), but your images absolutely display the extra pop and polish for the *display* medium, and absolutely get destroyed when previewed by DPreview and not shown as original size on the appropriate displays.

So yes pixel peeping 100% at the *original* full resolution file is meaningless...but displaying an image at 100% for the *final* display medium and resolution is critical.

I just had to resample and post sharpen a wallpaper photo using Irfanview for my work displays which have pretty weak displays...but again taking full control over the *final* resolution makes a massive difference in the end result vs letting the OS re-size, etc.