Basically the title.

Do pictures really need a limit to how far you can zoom?

It annoys me to no end when there's a larger image that I'd really like to zoom in to view a detail and I run into an arbitrary wall just too far away.

Get better software

Edit: oh I thought this was asklemmy or something. Open an issue if there isn't one for this feature request.

Every picture has a baseline resolution. Think of it like an old-fashioned tv screen. If you go up to the screen and look really close...all you're going to see are little colored dots. You stand back and all those little colored dots produce an image...but up close they're just dots.

Same thing with all digital images. You keep zooming in, and eventually you're just going to be looking at pixels. The higher the resolution the more pixels per square inch...but eventually, you get down to the point where there's nothing smaller to see.

Its still annoying when software won't let you zoom in so you only see like 12 pixels

Do pictures really need a limit to how far you can zoom?

Well, once a single pixel fills the entire screen, I see no benefit to zooming in further, so that's where I would set the limit.

Summit's limit is significantly below that, though, which can be inconvenient.

Adobe Photoshop works great for this.

My dude this post is the feature request. It's how summit operates.

Your answer is highly logical

I'm talking about details, not pixels. Can't even make out the pixels from how little I can zoom in.

Are you suggesting that OP use Photoshop as an alternative to Summit? :P

This doesn't read like a feature request since it's so vague so I am not adding this to the roadmap. Feel free to respond to this comment or create a new post if you have a more concrete feature request.

Oh? I thought it was pretty clear and precise. The arbitrary zoom limit should be removed.
I'd love to know what further details you would like.

To reiterate after further testing:
When zooming in on a picture, it stops once one of the sides of the picture "fills" the screen. Ie, if the image is wider than my screen I can zoom in untill the top and bottom are aligned with my screen, but no further.
This prevents zooming in very far. And on a large (high resolution) image that prevents from zooming in on the details.

Edit:
Turns out that the zoom just happened to be the same on a couple of pictures (they had the same aspect ratio) so it looked like it stopped when the top and bottom hit the screen edge. But it was just a coincidence.

The point still stands. An arbitrary zoom limit prevents from zooming close enough on large images. It is unnecessary and a nuisance.

I think this feature request can be summarized as: add a setting to allow users to adjust the max zoom in the image viewer.

To answer your question about why there even is a max zoom. I use the app a lot with one hand. When I do this I double tap to zoom once, double tap again to zoom twice, then double tap to return to 1x zoom and then I can swipe the image away to go back. This series of gestures is what feels most natural to me. Without a max zoom, I'd have to do an edge swipe or a double tap + hold + drag. Not impossible just slightly less natural.

I don't see why double tap zooming and manual zooming should be connected.

Well a double tap zoom is a manual zoom, just by a specific amount.

Sure. I only used the word to distinguish the difference. Maybe "analogue zoom" would've been better.

Analogue zooming shouldn't need to be connected with double tap zoom's amounts.

They do because you can pinch to zoom then double tap to zoom or vice versa. To disable one if the other is done first woild result in a confusing experience.

I don't mean the other should be disabled. Just that the amount zoomed with the tap should not have anything to do with the amount you've zoomed, or how much you can zoom, with pinching.
If you have pinched, of course you can tap to the next zoom or back to original if you are maxed. Or if you've tapped, sure you can continue by pinching.

I don't understand why the amounts are connected.

All I want is that the maximum amount zoomed by pinching is removed.

The logic for double tap to zoom is:

If the current zoom is max, then set zoom to 1x otherwise increase zoom by some factor.

For the sake of argument if the max zoom level is 1000x and it increases by 2 each time then it will take 500 double taps before you get back to 1x zoom.

I see.

Could the tap zoom max be set to a lower count than pinching so that it takes 2 (or what it is now) double taps to get to the max (say 3x), but you can continue zooming from there by pinching.

If you double tap when the zoom is anything past 3x it goes to 1x.

All of this is a non-issue since the plan is just to make max zoom a setting. It's going to stay the way it is by default but if you want no limit you will be able to set that.

Ah, alright then!

However, I do also use the double tap to zoom back out.