Biggest enlargement?

[Claire]

Quick question. What is the biggest enlargement you've done? I am kinda curious how big of a picture I can get with my 300D, and still keep good quality.

[blinking8s]

when i had my 300d 23x13 i think? it was like 7 months ago..close to that without any major processing and without losing any img quality

[HJMinard]

I had excellent results at 11x14 inches with my 300D ... that was the largest I tried (or needed).

[Scottes]

10D, several 12x18s which looked great. A couple of 20x30 which looked pretty darn amazing as long as you were 4 feet away or more.

I will have to admit that I processed the ever-loving heck out of the 20x30s to ensure that the upsizing looked good.

[robertwgross]

D60, I do 11x14 inches and 13x19 inches a lot. I seldom explore bigger than that.

---Bob Gross---

[Headcase650]

I just printed a 20x24 glossy rc board in december. I first cropped the image in Photoshop CS with out sampeling witch left the resolution at 70dpi or something like that. Then go under image size turn on resampeling and choose bicubic "smoother" from the drop down menu and bump the resolution up to 300dpi. For me at least this have given better results than cropping with your final resolution in the crop bar.

By the way the print looked awesome even up close nose to nose.

[Claire]

Thanks people. I was just curious. Never tried anything bigger than an A4, but might in the future. A friend of mine mentioned she'd like to have some of my images in the future on her wall. I'm assuming poster size or maybe a bit less than that.

[robertwgross]

You probably know that 300 dpi is sort of a high standard for prints of a normal size. If you do the math, you'll see that with your camera you can maintain 300 dpi on any normal size. You will also see that at some point around 8x10, that 300 standard will start to slip. That's OK, since larger prints are supposed to be viewed from farther away. By the time you get some feet away, 300 isn't important, and 200 is enough. By the time you get lots of feet away, 200 isn't important, and 100 is enough for normal viewing. So, there is no hard and fast rule of how large your images can be printed. You can print at 10 feet by 15 feet if you want to, but just don't stick your nose up to it to look for detail.

Besides, if you have some killer image, you can do some careful upsizing. In some cases, you can't "rob Peter to pay Paul", but this method can be used to print larger with good results.

---Bob Gross---

[mikesd]

Print 11x17s and 13x19s on a Canon i9100 that looks pretty darn good.

[tpinchback]

I have printed 20x30s shooting jpg with my 300d and 20d.
I also printed a 20x30 for my friend who shoots a d2h (4mp) and looked nice and little pixelation