print sizes from 1984x1488 ??

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Hi, have a look here;

http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/d [...] sprint.htm

John

"Beck" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> What is the biggest print size I can get from 1984x1488 high quality
> setting ?
> Some articles I have seen say 8x10" prints, but when I asked the question
> on a forum someone suggested only 6x4" is possible.
>

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"John" <john59098@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, have a look here;
>
> http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/d [...] sprint.htm
>

Thankyou John. It doesn't have the 1948x1488 resolution listed, but reading
between the lines at 8x10" the prints will be close to high quality.

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"Beck" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Ken Weitzel" <kweitzel@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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>>
>> Beck wrote:
>>> What is the biggest print size I can get from 1984x1488 high quality
>>> setting ?
>>> Some articles I have seen say 8x10" prints, but when I asked the
>>> question on a forum someone suggested only 6x4" is possible.
>>
>> Hi Beck...
>>
>> For mighty good prints, you need about 200 pixels per inch
>> of print. So, in your case, (approximately) 2000 / 200 equals
>> 10 inches wide - therefore 8 x 10 will be mighty nice
>>
>> For the very very best, the kind of prints that you can
>> examine with a magnifying glass, you want about 300 pixels
>> per inch. So, your 2000 / 300 would give you an incredibly
>> good (about) 7 inches in the biggest dimension.
>>
>> Others opinions, and your mileage, may vary. Do a couple
>> of tests for yourself.
>
> Thanks Ken. Sounds good.
> Its confusing when I get differing information. Some guy in a forum
> insisting that anything above 6x4 would be unacceptable.


The DPI you choose for printing should relate to whether you are viewing
under a magnifying glass or standing six feet away, or ? ? ?

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Beck wrote:
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> Thanks Ken. Sounds good.
> Its confusing when I get differing information. Some guy in a forum
> insisting that anything above 6x4 would be unacceptable.

Different people do have different acceptability levels! 8 x 10 inches
should be fine, but there's no margin for cropping, and the print won't be
quite as sharp as from an 8MP camera.

David

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"Jim Townsend" <not@real.address> wrote in message
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> Beck wrote:
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>>
>> "Dave R knows who" <kilbyfan@spamnotAOL.com> wrote in message
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>>>
>>>
>>> The DPI you choose for printing should relate to whether you are viewing
>>> under a magnifying glass or standing six feet away, or ? ? ?
>>
>> How would I choose the DPI when taking pictures on Digital?
>
> Other than changing resoltuions, you can't choose the DPI with a digital
> camera.. Cameras produce fixed arrays: X pixels by Y pixels.
>
> DPI is the print size divided by the number of pixels.
>
> An image that's 1000 pixels wide printed at 10 inches would be 100 DPI.
>
> (1000 pixels / 10 inches = 100 dots per inch)

Okay this is all getting very confusing, sorry.
At the end of the day, all I really need to know is what sies the resolution
will print good pictures for. I doubt anyone is going to analyse them with
a magnifying glass, they are just momentos of a lcoal event.

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Beck <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> What is the biggest print size I can get from 1984x1488 high quality setting
> ?
> Some articles I have seen say 8x10" prints, but when I asked the question on
> a forum someone suggested only 6x4" is possible.

200dpi is usually reckoned to be 'good enough' so, do the sums - 10x8
*should* be at least OK, and 7x5 or 6x4 very good indeed.

Some people say 300dpi is essential, in which case they'd only be happy
with 6x4s.

The only real answer is - try it and see. Depends on the picture,
depends on the printer, depends on the postprocessing you've done, depends
on the person looking at them, depends on how closely you're looking. I've
got everything from 1600x1200s at 30x20" that look great as posters to
the odd 2304x1728 that still looks lousy at 6x4".

pete
--
pete@fenelon.com "Send lawyers, guns and money...."

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"Beck" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> What is the biggest print size I can get from 1984x1488 high quality
setting
> ?
> Some articles I have seen say 8x10" prints, but when I asked the question
on
> a forum someone suggested only 6x4" is possible.
>
Do the math yourself. Dividing 1488 by 8 yields 186 pixels per inch. That
is marginally acceptable. So, it appears that you can make an 8x10 print.
You must decide whether you like that size or not.
Jim
>

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Beck wrote:

> What is the biggest print size I can get from 1984x1488 high quality
> setting ?
>

Depends on how well it was exposed, if it was shot at a high enough shutter
speed where there is no motion blur etc. I've made pretty nice 8X10's from
1600X1200 images with some post processing sharpening and upsampling.

--

Stacey

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Beck wrote:

> "Dave R knows who" <kilbyfan@spamnotAOL.com> wrote in message
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>
>>
>>The DPI you choose for printing should relate to whether you are viewing
>>under a magnifying glass or standing six feet away, or ? ? ?
>
>
> How would I choose the DPI when taking pictures on Digital?
>
>
Depends on what software you are using. For instance, Paint Shop Pro
has several options for changing size. However, it always shows what
the ppi will be in the resulting print. There is also an option for
downsampling when resizing- avoid that option.

In other software you MAY have to select a ppi and it will show the
resulting print size. But the better software will allow you to size by
physical size, in inches, and then show you what the ppi will be at that
size.

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If the image is clean and sharp a good 8x10 is quite possible. I've made
many from far less.

Beck wrote:
> What is the biggest print size I can get from 1984x1488 high quality setting
> ?
> Some articles I have seen say 8x10" prints, but when I asked the question on
> a forum someone suggested only 6x4" is possible.
>
>