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A sentence at the end of the article helped me understand why looking at photos on a 12.9" iPad feels uniquely pleasurable to me: I can, and naturally do, hold
by samatman 5y ago
A sentence at the end of the article helped me understand why looking at photos on a 12.9" iPad feels uniquely pleasurable to me: I can, and naturally do, hold the device such that the image fills my focal length.
Phones are of course too small, but my laptop screen, while larger, isn't as nice, even for photos in landscape perspective, because it's subjectively smaller in terms of the field of view it fills. I'm estimating I naturally use a laptop about twice as far from my eyes as an iPad.
- globular-toast 5y agoThis makes me think of cinema. Most people who watch films at home watch them on a far smaller screen than they were made for and the picture encompasses a far smaller portion of the field of view. Cinemascope films are supposed to fill almost all of the horizontal field of view. IMAX films are supposed to fill your entire field of view (extending right into the peripheral). I'm sure many people have tried, like me, to sit closer to the screen so it fills more of your field of view. But even though the angle might be the same, the experience is not. This is true even if you view with one eye. So it makes me think there is something else at play other than just viewing angles.