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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

In today’s age of high-resolution digital image technology, it seems difficult to argue that a 512 × 512 image produced with a 1970s-era analog scanner is the best we have to offer as an image quality test standard".

I mean, this puts into context that the standard probably should have been some kind of test card like this :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_circle_pattern

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