BridgesLoc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA
Kiron Kid wrote:
What size of quality prints can I expect to get from this camera?
Thanks
Think Billboard. I have a 30x40 hanging behind the reception desk at the tennis center where I work taken with an 8 mpx. Olympus with a sensor smaller than either Nikon or Canon's crop sensor. It looks great from 8 ft. away, and would anyone want to view it any closer? Actually you can move to within inches of the print before you see any softening of the print. I have both the D700 and D800 and I like the 700 better. I feel with the less mpx., less sensor nodes, larger nodes and space between them it handles noise really well. I know on the "bench" tests show the 800 and even the D7100 to handle noise better but it has been my experience that the D700 does just as well or better.
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Wow. Just wow. Do you have any clue how obnoxious you sound? Why be an asshat? Why not keep your trash comments to yourself? The forum would be better for it.
Perhaps a trip back to grade school to learn some basic grammar might make your life more enjoyable, and not make you look some much like the _asshat____ (fill in the blank!) that you are!
Your best quality prints are going to be A4 or 8"x12" at 12MP. Anything larger starts to pixelate the print. That is a great question thanks for asking it. Craig
The Nikon D700 is a full frame camera, right? At 12MP I would not pixel peek but it should make fine large 300ppi prints.
I've printed and sold 40x60 prints, modestly cropped (mainly straightening the horizon), made with my D700. And my D300. And my D200 (10 mp). And my D70 (6 mp). I have also printed and sold several panos, 30x90 give or take with the D700 and the D300 -
The notion that you need more megapixels for larger prints is basically a myth. There is no magic done to the many iPhone 6 camera images put on billboards that you see all over town, and that camera is only 8 mp. And the billboards are huge.
FYI, for a 40x60 you only need to print it to 32 ppi, so all you "need" is 1280x1920, or roughly 2.5 mp. So a 40x60 printed with a 6 mp image looks pretty good, and using a 12 mp image allows you to crop.
Try reading the small print in a newspaper at a distance of 5 ft. You can't. But it's easy when the newspaper is only 16" away.
The only time you need more resolution on a large print is when you are expecting photographers - who will walk up to the large print, take out their loupe, and start examining the individual pixels.
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Thanks Gene51, but you know most of them out there don't believe you, I do you know. Seems few digital photographers have or remember making beautiful 30" x 40" prints from 35mm negatives -- much less project slide. 4 x 5 and 8 x 10 film was the dope.
Gene51Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)
Bridges wrote:
Think Billboard. I have a 30x40 hanging behind the reception desk at the tennis center where I work taken with an 8 mpx. Olympus with a sensor smaller than either Nikon or Canon's crop sensor. It looks great from 8 ft. away, and would anyone want to view it any closer? Actually you can move to within inches of the print before you see any softening of the print. I have both the D700 and D800 and I like the 700 better. I feel with the less mpx., less sensor nodes, larger nodes and space between them it handles noise really well. I know on the "bench" tests show the 800 and even the D7100 to handle noise better but it has been my experience that the D700 does just as well or better.
Think Billboard. I have a 30x40 hanging behind th... (show quote)
I routinely downsample an image from my D800 to 4,200x2,800 px for printing - and the noise is much much better than a D700. When I had both, I learned that little trick thanks to an article posted on DXO's website, and a few other places. The noise on a downsampled D800 is pretty close to a D3S which was the high ISO king for a number of years.
I don't mean to hurt your feelings, but that's a pretty ridiculous question. Maybe you could rephrase the question so we could better understand what you are looking for.
What size of quality prints can I expect to get from this camera?
Thanks
It's not always the quality of your camera that determines print quality or sharpness. The lens can also significantly impact the quality. Especially as one increases the size of the print.