| Rich Z |
04-30-2006 12:10 PM |
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Originally Posted by MADN3SS
Thanks. I'll be buying a new camera this summer. I want something that will allow me to blow some pictures up to poster size. I already have spots in the garage waiting for some posters.
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Do you already have a camera in mind? Having one that can take photos with enough resolution to blow up into poster sized prints may be a pretty tall order. Figuring on a poster that is 4 foot wide and able to display a minimum resolution of 150 dpi means your camera needs to have the capability of taking a photo of 7,200 pixels horizontally. For the poster to be just 2 foot tall means a vertical resolution on the camera of 3,600 pixels. So the camera you would need would need to be rated at 26 megapixels. Right off hand, I don't know of any consumer grade camera that has that kind of capability.
So smaller banners may be necessary or else a graphics shop that can extrapolate the raw data for the image to be printed. Of course, the file size of the image is going to be substantial as well. |
