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/g/, can you explain something to me, because I don't think I understand this magic.
Say I have a book that's 5 inches wide.
Then say I scan that book in 600dpi.
Now, I have a 24 inch monitor and it's 1920x1080, which is standard.
So, that book page I just scanned was 5 inches wide. But here's the thing, looking at on my 24 inch monitor the image doesn't look stretches our or distorted even though the book is only 1/5th the size of my monitor's physical size.
Who exactly does this work?
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>>60896554
Look at optical zooming
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>>60896554
When you can scan a page at 600dpi (or insert another high number) and have no distortion visible in the image it means the printing process used put down as much or more detail on the paper as the scanner can capture. On the other hand, 1920x1080 on a 24" monitor is only 92 PPI, so the same scanned image viewed at full size will appear 6.52x the size of the original in this case due to the lower density.
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>>60896554
reality is a higher resolution than your monitor.
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>>60896848
This.
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>>60896554
Are you literally retarded? This is on the level of "if I take a picture of a mirror why isn't the picture a mirror".
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