Print from digital camera file

Just bought a digital camera, a Kodak C140 8,2 MP.
Just made a shot at what i think is its best quality and Windows says this on the file:


width 3264
height 2448
Resolution 480 dpi
depth 24-bit


Now I'm wondering, what is the biggest size i could print this photo?

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/01/2009 10:52AM by Gigi4.

If when you zoom in to 100% in whatever photoviewing/editing software you use, and it is sharp and has no real noise, then you'll get an A3 print out of it.

It might not make good viewing when you're looking at the photo really close, but a foot or 2 away (so if you've got it on your wall for instance) it ought to be fine.

My D300 (OK, slightly different type of camera) saves images at 4288x2848 and I was selling prints just over A2 size (18x24" was the largest) when we were doing our school portraits in May and July.

It all comes down to what the images look like at 100%. If they're soft, lacking detail or noisy (usually a problem when taken in low light, especially in low-end or older cameras) then you'll have to print them at a smaller size - unless the camera is @#$%&, then A4 would normally be fine. Remember to sharpen the images (Unsharp Mask or the newer Smart Sharp if you have Photoshop) a bit first - printing tends to soften details.

as big as the printer limits, surely...


Jenson drives it like he owns it; Lewis drives it like he stole it

"unless the camera is @#$%&"

can you explain @#$%& better? :-P

Thanks anyway

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If you dip it in manure and the image quality doesn't suffer dramatically. :P



danm Wrote:
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> as big as the printer limits, surely...

I suspect you jest, but you know you can use companies such as Loxley Colour and PhotoBox to print pictures, yeah?

So.... how big can you realistically print on a 25x0.6m roll of paper?

about 26m by 0.6 surely

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gav Wrote:
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> If when you zoom in to 100% in whatever
> photoviewing/editing software you use, and it is
> sharp and has no real noise, then you'll get an A3
> print out of it.
>
> It might not make good viewing when you're looking
> at the photo really close, but a foot or 2 away
> (so if you've got it on your wall for instance) it
> ought to be fine.
>
> My D300 (OK, slightly different type of camera)
> saves images at 4288x2848 and I was selling prints
> just over A2 size (18x24" was the largest) when we
> were doing our school portraits in May and July.
>
> It all comes down to what the images look like at
> 100%. If they're soft, lacking detail or noisy
> (usually a problem when taken in low light,
> especially in low-end or older cameras) then
> you'll have to print them at a smaller size -
> unless the camera is @#$%&, then A4 would normally
> be fine. Remember to sharpen the images (Unsharp
> Mask or the newer Smart Sharp if you have
> Photoshop) a bit first - printing tends to soften
> details.


Ok, here is one of the shots i made yesterday testing my camera. I've not used sharp mask as you suggested but what dimension you think this could be print?

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/01/2009 10:54AM by Gigi4.

You'd easily get A4 out of that. Looking at a crop, A3 looks to be too much of a stretch, but it might be worth a go.

Technically, the only tip I'll give would be to get the flower/bulb thing in focus, then have everything else behind it blurring. As things are, you've got the little white flowers as the main focal point, which may well be what you're after, but the big one rather distracts in that instance.

ah my apologies, I re-read and now get the gist that what size can it be printed without looking distorted and pixellated.


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