By this logic alone we should all be using 20" x 16" glass plates for stunning contact prints.

The reason why 35mm became universal was that the resolution on a 16" x 12" print just about equates with the resolution of the human eye at normal viewing distances. (Source: The Lens Book, Hicks & Schultz)

Now this has already been exceeded by APS-C DSLRs.

Granted there will be further improvements, but you won't see it in normal conditions, only extreme ones. Don't forget that no-one ever made the most of their 35mm cameras anyway, apart from those who used Kodak Technical Pan film.

For us Kodak Tri-X users, we were satisfied with lots of lovely grain (high noise) as long as it was crisp and sharp. That's why I didn't use HP5 - the grain structure is relatively mushy (low noise)

I don't think the Facebook circles I move in fit that profile George, or at least I hope not...it really does depend on your particular group of friends.

My interpretation is that the clauses in the agreement are there because in each and every country that Facebook is available in, they are publishing our work. Therefore, in some areas they actually need specicfic permission to do so, so the permission to publish refers to that.

We don't lose the copyright and Facebook doesn't have the right to do anything they like with any image.

If they did that sort of thing, would there not be endless lawsuits in process as we speak, splashed across all the media in full detail?

The vital component is the screen. I can tell you that our new IPS screems are as good as the CRTs ever were, but I haven't seen the new LED screens yet.

Where you have a group of like-minded people, let's say photographers even, then Facebook is a great place to share the results of a recent trip. Especially a shared trip where several people were on a walk, visited a place, and so on.

When we go out and about with friends and relatives we all tend to shoot lots of images and Facebook is the place we all get to see the results very quickly.

Like everything else, it has its place.

The "machine gun approach" is only guaranteed to produce a large number of images. Every single one of them could miss the moment.

Concentration, dedication, practice and timing will have a higher success rate IMHO. However, it takes a lot of effort to achieve.

Always a good place for images, but today was not really a photo trip. However, the I-10 was on hand and i ended up with quite a few flower pictures. Here's a yellow Flag Iris.
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If the bear was dozing, just one shot would have done it....but that is less spectacular.

Absolutely nothing on this earth is 100% precise and there could well be a difference in focus point when the lens is travelling from opposite directions. I would try several readings from both directions and take the average as the correct setting.

iPad?