Don, you beat me to the punch. The only thing is, I was going in the opposite direction. 600x### is so 2005. Technology is always improving and so should our posts. Moore's Law states that computer processing power doubles every 18 months and has stood true for the last 40 years. Monitors, hard drives, broadband connections, and digital pixel count may not follow Moore's Law, but they improving by leaps and bounds year over year. My first flat pannel monitor was a 1024x768 which is almosr 6 years old now. Currently I'm using a Dell 24" flat pannel with 1920x1200 and a laptop with 1680x1050. Heck even my coorprate issued laptop has a 1680x1050.
Just some perspective:
1. Most Photographers are shooting (or scanning) at greater than 5 MP and most new cameras are pushing to >10 MP.
2. A quick search on Bestbuy.com showed that they only have 3 monitors with less than 1280x1024.
3. Broadband connections of 1-5 Mbps are common place now.
4. Server space is cheap.
5. We're all proud of our images and who want to compress them down to less than 5% of their origional size before displaying them.
6. Bigger is better...lol
7. People on this site are talking about spending more than $8,000 on a new camera and lens and no-one bats and eye....so $500 to $1000 for a decent monitor doesn't seem to out of line.
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With all of that said, I don't want to be looking at raw 10 Mp images online either, but I do think 800-1000 is reasonable for most and I would urge RG to take that into consideration when revamping the GG site and the portfolios.
Post Big but be reasonable!!!
Allen
