On a walk, last October, I realized my first "smartphone" was in my pocket, so thought I'd better start getting familiar with it. There seem to be no manuals with electro-gizmos anymore. I'd heard that tiny sensors equate to deep depth of field, so turned the phone for a vertical image to maximize the area from near to far. The pics looked pretty darn good on the small monitor. But I was anxious to see how they looked on the desktop monitor back home. I was astonished. But I was still looking at a 72 ppi image and wanted to see the ultimate test—a print. I watched expectantly as an 18 inch file printing from Lightroom emerged from the Epson 4900. Jaw-dropping! Stunned.
The horizontal image below revealed a possible flaw that didn't exist on the vertical. The upper right corner is soft. Oh No! I ran some tests, shooting newspaper. Soft corner, in fact the whole right side. Went online to see if there was chatter about this. Some gab about a loose lens, even audible if you shook the phone. Ugh! I was heartbroken. With such incredible resolution I had visions of creating a genre of iPhone photos. To be continued...
