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That's only true if you really have 10 megapixels of info. Unfortunately, in too many of my photos poor focus, camera shake, etc. dominate even at 4 megapixels.mikerault:Yes, but try cropping a 5, then a 8 then a 10 megapixel image to half size, then blow it up, there will be a difference. Reducing a 10 down is different than going the other way.
diver_pirate:The column is a tease with no real assesment. I just took a family portriat at with a tripod and self timer at Christmas with my C-5050 and blew it up at Ritz Photo to 8x10 with less than 20% cropped. I'm not a photo expert but I saw specs or pixels that seemed to be a grainy texture. --Im used to looking at fine details.
Mabey Ritz tool was not as good as a professional lab but??? If I take the square root of 4 megapixels (for estimation purposes) I get 2000. Thats 2000 pixels or dots across a 10 inch photo edge. This is 200 pixels per inch. Most color photo printers do 4800 dpi or more. Where does the data come from? It dosent. maybe interpolation or replication. Bottom line loss of detail.
If I had a 8 megapixel then almost 300 more data points. The NYT article was at Times Square. Did every body have their beer gogles on?
-DP
diver_pirate:This is 200 pixels per inch. Most color photo printers do 4800 dpi or more. Where does the data come from? It dosent. maybe interpolation or replication. Bottom line loss of detail.