Hi to everyone who has contributed to this thread.
I must admit that this topic has ‘grown’ far beyond what I had originally intended, but clearly, there are no easy answers to my original concern about the inconsistency of colour rendition, dependant upon zoom level. It’s also clear that this is a problem with other photo editing software.
However, this is such a fundamental issue that it’s quite beyond me as to why it’s never been fixed. It’s all very well having the degree of detail and sophistication available in our photo editing software, but it all falls down if we zoom in to correct something at one zoom level and then discover that’s not what we’re going to achieve in our finished photos - It’s certainly not the famous WYSIWYG!
Basically I shoot nothing much other than landscapes, and clearly it’s in landscapes that this anomaly is most intrusive.
I would have thought this thread would have shown you that this is not a simple “there must be a bug” situation. There are so many factors at play and, as you say, other software falls into the same trap. Also… many of us simply don’t have this problem. It’s anything but a “simple fix”.
No, well… ALL PL users have this problem, it’s not a random bug that only happens on some machines. Simply, some users are not able to see it (either because of the kind of images they shoot, or because they are not picky enough to notice the difference).