Just a quick note to Mike, Mark and Nick about the newly posted
2010 Mini Medium Format shootout. It's a nice review, the only thing that stands out as a problem is that it's hard to tell whether the 100% crops posted are actually 100%...
Starting with figures 19, 20 and 21, these are described as 100% crops. But looking at the UI features of Photoshop shown in the edges and corners, these are all different in each in each image, and all heavily shrunk from what one would expect to actually see onscreen. The UI elements in Fig. 19 and 21 are so shrunk as to be illegible.
If the UI elements are shrunk, the 100% crops shown in the screen capture would also have been shrunk, so what we are viewing on the website would be effectively less than 100%. Much less than 100%, for fig. 19 and 21.
Looking at Figure 3, Photoshop's ruler marks peek out from the left edge, and I'm not sure, but these also seem to show the effects of resizing, as the ruler marks are not pixel-sharp. (I just compared them to the rulers on my Photoshop)
So...?
I know Mike and the contributors here discourage people from judging image quality onscreen, but if you provided 100% crops in the review, these were provided for a reason (it is at least possible to judge sharpness onscreen, if not colour and contrast), so they should really be 100%?