Originally posted by following.eric I've been looking a lot at the 5k Imac, just because I like them, but for fun at the shop yesterday I opened up flickr on one and views my images full screen or max size I suppose on the Imac and was surprised that they didn't look that great. I thought they would have looked so much better a full res but they kind of looked just okay.
Is that normal? I could see the benefit to 5k as right away I could see flaws in the image, like soft spots from the lens and less sharp area, but over all I was expecting it to I don't know just look amazing at 5k.
Online photos are a poor way to judge the quality of any monitor. Flickr annoyed lots back a while ago with issues about the quality of their photos re compression, but I don't know the current state of affairs. A much better way to judge is just view what you know to be a high quality image, preferably not in JPEG, at 1:1. And probably in something besides a browser. A pixel shifted Pentax image, for example. And of course it depends on your viewing distance; if you are like 40" away it won't matter at all.