Relationship between megapixels and print size

8 years 7 months ago #453231 by Walter Tidwell
 I just upgraded to a Canon 5D Mark III.  This camera has a higher MP figure than my last camera.  When you have more megapixels, what does this do to your print size?  What I have found out on my own, is you get greater print size, but is there a formula or simple to understand rule? 

Thank you

Walter


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8 years 7 months ago #453235 by effron
Some of your questions answered here.........
digitalphotographylive.com/megapixels-vs-print-size/

Why so serious?
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8 years 7 months ago #453285 by Don Fischer
That was interesting. I have a deal when I print with my Canon printer's from Picasa. When the photo come's up before the print starts, there is a box that say's preview. When I click that, I always do, It tell's me thee dpi and weather it's a good,poor or excellent photo. But it doesn't hit bad until the pixel count goes under 100. I wasn't sure what all that ment so I printed a few under 100 dpi. 95 or so and up looked alright but get much below that and you can actually see the pixels. Where good turn's to excellent I'm not sure. I've had 8x10's come close to 600pic. Larger size's I don't recall. But when printing from my old D70, the photo's were fine but fell apart much faster than with my D5000 or 7000. How to figure out what size to make, I just push it in to print from Picasa, set it up on which ever printer I'm using and then before actually printing, review. If it doesn't come out good at worst I just stop the printing.


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8 years 7 months ago #453387 by Stanly
Good link thanks for sharing that

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