Can't lock zoom in Compare view if images are of different dimensions

[jjaylad]

Hi there,

Didn't get any replies on this in the LR Forums, so will try here. 🙂
I received 300+ photos to edit. Most are crops so resolutions are low.
ENHANCE does a great job of giving me some meat to work with. Next comes the sharpening and noise reduction and I've been flipping the Enhanced DNG's that need that into Topaz Sharpen Ai as JPEGS to do it. Once I'm happy with those, I delete the DNG's which are pretty large files so I just have the jpgs left which I can further edit in LR then export for the client.
During my workflow I compare some of the results, so I select the original, go into Compare View then use the arrow keys to compare it to the Enhanced and the Enhanced Edit (from Sharpen Ai). etc.
The problem in Compare is there seems to be no way to lock the RELATIVE Zoom.
The LOCK option causes them both to zoom the same amount relative to their individual original size ...so no locking of the 'relative' zoom
The SYNC option causes them both to pan in sync but if the Enhanced is zoomed to 100% for normal 'examination' and the original is zoomed to 200% to compare it to the Enhanced, they can not be panned together. As soon as Sync or Lock is clicked the relative zoom changes and they can only be simultaneously panned from their original sizes so they start out the same
Now that we have ENHANCE and it works so well, having an option to LOCK the RELATIVE ZOOM so both images can be viewed at the same apparent size and panned simultaneously seems like a logical option ..so perhaps it is already there and I'm just missing it. Just shaking off a bout of Covid so wouldn't be surprised.
Anyone have a way to do this and are others experiencing the same issue?
Thanks

[HansHeap]

Yes same for me too - need to be able to lock the zoom for images of different dimensions

[richardplondon]

Subjectively, the fact than one image has got twice the pixels of the other; taken together with the fact that one image is zoomed half as much as the other, seems to cancel out and present as if there were no differences.

But objectively, there really are two differences between these images as viewed - 1) the number of pixels in each case, AND 2) the zoom factor in each case. Two differences is not the same as no differences.

Locking the zoom factor is considering only difference (2) and can only synchronise things for that one aspect. 100% vs 200% would count as not synchronised, IMO logically enough, as far as that goes.