[ale] OT: megapixels

[Geoffrey]

Ray Knight wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 09:28, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>I don't know where the quality point starts, but I know that my 1 
>>megapixel camera takes great shots for viewing on a computer, but it 
>>won't generate a decent printout on photo paper.  I think the 3 
>>megapixel range is where you need to be to get that quality.
>>
> 
> 
> Could this perhaps be a problem with your printer?  I have a 1 megapixel
> Polaroid I picked up on the cheap when K-Mart had their first round of
> bankruptcy closings.  At the time I had an Epson Stylus Color 600 and
> printing on photo paper gave marginal results.  I recently acquired a
> Canon I-850 and now 3"x5" prints on photo quality paper are almost
> indistinguishable from drug store prints.

Right, but I'm referring to printing a larger image of the 1 megapixel 
image, say an 8x10, this is where you'll loose your quality.
> 
> Ray


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