Digital BW, The Print

Jerry writes:

> My eyes have a problem most people have never
> encountered.  Whatever I focus my glasses on is
> sharp, but nothing else is. From about 10 inches
> to 25 inches or so I require reading glasses,
> and they must be pulled out or pushed closer to
> my face at every single distance in between.

What you need is some sort of glasses with adjustable focus.  Technically
quite feasible, but I've never heard of it being done.  Better still would
be glasses with autofocus--and yes, that is quite feasible, too, but I've
never heard of that being done, either, and it would be expensive.  But you
might be an excellent test case.

In any case, if you are having this much trouble focusing on images, it
might explain in part why digital looks as good as film to you.

> But the Canon Webpage text was MUCH tinier
> than that. I can read what I sent Truman as
> a sample, I could NOT read the canon site.

Some Web sites are poorly designed.  Among such sites, it's not uncommon to
see, for example, a site designed to fit in 640x480 pixels (even though
virtually no one is still using 640x480-pixel screens), but with so much
text crammed into it that it is almost impossible tiny--letters may only be
a few pixels high, and thus a blur on many monitors.  But it could be worse:
The site might require Flash just to get past the first page, which is a
hallmark of the schoolgirl style of web design.