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pixel peepers

pixel peepers is the plural 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)

Questions about pixel peepers

What is pixel peepers the plural of?
Pixel peepers is the plural of pixel peeper.

Words near pixel peepers in the dictionary

  1. pixel hunted
  2. pixel hunting
  3. pixel hunts
  4. pixel peep
  5. pixel peeper
  6. pixel peepers
  7. pixel peeping
  8. pixel pusher
  9. pixel pushers
  10. pixel shader
  11. pixel shaders

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