LCD screen vs Lightroom: zooming in

[cldbstr]

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Dear All,

 

Begin new to everything Leica (and Lightroom) I am posting my first thread. I recently bought a M9. For now I have two questions (and many more lurking in the back of my mind):

 

- When working in Lightroom 2.6, in the navigator there are several standard settings to zoom in on a picture (1:1, 1:4, 1:3, 1:2, 2:1, 3:1, 4:1, 8:1 and 11:1). Can someone explain to me which zoom equals a 100% crop?

 

- The other thing is that I noticed that when I zoom in I can clearly see the individual pixels from 2:1 onwards (working in Lightroom 2.6 on a DNG compressed picture). However, when I take a look at the same picture on the LCD screen of my camera I can zoom in much further, in fact right up to maximum, and still not be able to see the individual pixels. Why is that?

 

Thanks, Martin

[Marty]

Hi and welcome. I will have a stab at it.

 

The 1:1 setting in Lightroom equals a 100% crop. It means one image pixel corresponds to one screen pixel.

 

This is also the maximum zoom factor that you can achieve on the camera LCD. You cannot see individual pixels because there are 230000 of them in that small area. Only Lightroom can show individual pixels as such because you can zoom in further than 1:1, which enlarges the image pixels to cover several screen pixels. The LCD only appears to zoom in more than Lightroom because the LCD is smaller than your computer monitor that's all.

 

With a bit of luck more people will answer the same question in different words to make it absolutely clear!

[cldbstr]

Thanks Marty, the answer couldn't be any clearer. I should've thought about this myself.

 

Best regards,

Martin

[tdtaylor]

I have found I have to take the camera LCD as an approximation. I am use to the excellent Nikon LCD. I am often lukewarm to the photo I view on the camera LCD (like landscapes), only to be totally surprised when I get it on a large screen monitor. For this price, this is one area I think Leica should have done better- but is definitely not a deal killer- just need to get used to it.