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I like the content, but seriously I’m baffled as to how this is a science meme?
I would assume because it's related to educating someone about why optical lenses can give an incredible amount of detail that digital just can't compete with. But that's just a guess and that might not even be enough for this forum
What's a digital lens exactly?.. The only thing I can think of are in some point& shoot cameras and phones they have fake factorial zooms that are just cropping into the resolution.
i'm guessing it was a brain shortcut for a "digital zoom lens"
Absolutely correct
Also, because posts like this drive really informative comment sections like this thread. I promise there's a method to the madness.
~~you people do understand it is fake, and if you zoom on the top right eye, it is not the same as bottom right, right?~~
ok, so to my surprise, it seems to be possible. the difference in the eye may be result of multiple layers of shitty jpeg compression.
the author has more pictures on his web - https://www.pjvphotography.com/Fauna/Pikas
it is though
☺️compression did nothing wrong
You are not supposed to zoom into a compressed photo 🤭