L size portrait images are too small...

[truth]

Many images are showing ghosting, artifacts and fringe that are not present when they are viewed at even 25% of the full size.

SM large

http://truth.smugmug.com/photos/111475566-L.jpg

SM's Large image is like 16.7% of an uncropped 8.2 mp image. This seems unreasonably small for a pro account to be able to represent an image for sale. Why the discrepency between portrait and landscape?

[Andy]

All covered here. And, it's a great place to give your input.
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=32241

[Andy]

And more here:

Custom image sizes:
http://www.smugmug.com/help/custom-photo-sizes

The reason behind the current portrait large size:
http://blogs.smugmug.com/release-notes/2006/04/27/new-features-april-27-2006/

Back in March, we reduced our JPG compression and made even higher quality resized images:
http://blogs.smugmug.com/release-notes/2006/03/17/new-features-march-16-2006/

[truth]

Thanks Andy.