Screen resolution is at best about 1/8 of the resolution of a decent silver-gelatin print. One can get an inkling of the detail obtainable from a technically good 4x5" negative by looking at an enlarged view on screen. The 16x enlargement above displays on most monitors about 5" wide. This corresponds to a full image size of 64x80". The detail visible only in the 16x on-screen enlargement is already visible in a well-crafted 8x10" silver-gelatin print, albeit not without a magnifier. Digital pigment prints don't achieve this level of detail, but by accentuating edge effects they can be made to look sharper to the unaided eye than silver-gelatin prints. A 16x enlarged print still looks better than the corresponding screen image because it has smooth transitions where the screen is visibly pixelated.

Tonality and color of Web images vary wildly from one monitor to the next. Midtones are by default lighter on a Mac than on Windows systems, color depends on the monitor's capabilities and calibration, as well as on ambient light, and both tone and color are affected by browser idiosyncrasies (witness the occasional color band). No web image will exactly match the tonality of a print. This site looks best on a calibrated monitor with a gamma setting of 2.2. For decent quality without calibration, you may want to set your monitor display to as many colors as possible and adjust brightness and contrast so that all steps in the grayscale below are clearly discernible, especially those near either end of the scale. The b&w images in the galleries have slighly warm hues. If you see blues, magentas, or olive greens instead, then some color adjustment will vastly improve your internet experience. If your internet provider offers you image compression in return for shorter download times, decline the offer. The image files here are reasonably small and should load quickly.