A printed photo is indeed different (with different digital darkroom requirements) than is one intended for a screen - or a projector. Different screens also seem to require edits for them to show a photo at it's best. Sony, for example, apparently build-in to their cameras some sort of auto-processing of photos specifically for the output at HD resolutions to one of their LCD HD TV sets. The output for various types and sizes of LCD screens seems to require different sharpening, contrast and colour balance or saturation. Web-based stuff differs from that output to a state-of-the-art monitor.

All these media are valid but print media seems to have remained as the number one priority for camera makers, reviewers and digital darkroom technique-teachers. Yet I (and I suspect most other photographers who are not professionals) look at 90 or more of photos on a screen. Most of mine never get to be printed; and yet they are looked at far more often than they would be were they in a printed photo album - screens are so convenient.

My suggestion is that camersa reviewers and digital darkroom lesson-givers should perhaps revise their advice to be much less print-oriented than heretofore.

Lataxe, not writing a letter but typing to a forum.