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pixel-peeper

pixel-peeper is the alternative form of pixel peeper.

Meaning of pixel peeper

Noun

pixel peeper (plural pixel peepers)

  1. (idiomatic) A person who carefully scrutinizes a magnified digital photograph in order to evaluate resolution and image quality.
    • Those whom I have called pixel peepers are satisfied with nothing less than an intimate dissection of a camera/lens' abilities (always at 100% pixel magnification), without regard for whether or not perceived optical defects are even actually visible in real world prints.2004 March 27, Michael Reichmann, "The Case of the Nit Picking Pixel Peepers", The Luminous Landscape (luminous-landscape.com) (retrieved 23 April 2012)

Forms of pixel-peeper

pluralpixel-peepers

Questions about pixel-peeper

What is pixel-peeper the alternative form of?
Pixel-peeper is the alternative form of pixel peeper.

Words near pixel-peeper in the dictionary

  1. pixel shader
  2. pixel shaders
  3. pixel shifting
  4. pixel tracking
  5. pixel-hunting
  6. pixel-peeper
  7. pixel-peepers
  8. pixel-perfect
  9. pixelate
  10. pixelated
  11. pixelates

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