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**Bob Botts**

or you could stitch images together and blow away the resolution of even
large format cameras...

"Dave Moorman" > wrote in message
...
> In article > ,
> Wolf > wrote:
>
>> Dave Moorman wrote:
>> > In article >,
>> > "Episteme" > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Some may find this interesting?
>> >>
>> >> http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/...ogues-posts-2/
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> E.
>> >
>> > I think he's right. I use a 5 MP camera and have made very
>> > good-looking
>> > 18x24 prints with it.
>> >
>> > Dave
>>
>> Sorry, Dave, but you didn't make the print with your camera, but with
>> your printer. That's not a quibble. The printer received imaging data
>> from your imaging software and translated it into data it could use to
>> print that 18x24 image. These two elements in the process have a lot to
>> do with how well your prints turned out. Fact is that up to a point
>> smoothing algorithms can compensate for the limited information in a
>> small image file. Your printer software is built to do just that, since
>> it's designed to make larger than usual prints.
>>
>> You will find that if you print an image with very small detail (such as
>> the leaves of trees in the background) that the limitations of the 5MP
>> camera (and its lens as well) will begin to show. But since we rarely
>> look at a picture with a magnifying glass, these limitations will
>> usually not affect the appearance of the image "at normal viewing
>> distance". You will still have a pleasing print, so enjoy!
>>
>> HTH
>
> Right you are, HTH. Should have said "from it". I send them into a
> local camera chain which prints them on a much bigger and better printer
> than I can afford.
>
> Maybe I should hang onto that medium format camera.....
>
> Dave