Powershot A40 largest print size

[BMurfy]

I am keen to find out what the quality of the prints of the Canon Powershot A40. I am saving up pictures ready to send to a developer but I am wondering what the largest size I can get developed. I am confidenet 4 x 6 but I would like 5 x 8 as standard. Is this possible without loss of image quality?

Has anyone had any success with developers - any recommendation of internet developers in the UK?

Thanks,
BM

[drisley]

If you want large prints, I would get a program called Q-image. It automatically interpolates the image to a high dpi that matches your printer.
It also uses a interpolation technique called "Lanczos" which is very good... much better than even the best resize technique in Photoshop.

Another option is to get Irfanview. It's freeware, and has Lanczos Interpolation built in. That way you can size up your image to the print size you want, and at a high dpi, say 300dpi.

The results are really very good!

[Theo]

Bmurfy wrote:
I am keen to find out what the quality of the prints of the Canon Powershot A40. I am saving up pictures ready to send to a developer but I am wondering what the largest size I can get developed. I am confidenet 4 x 6 but I would like 5 x 8 as standard. Is this possible without loss of image quality?

Has anyone had any success with developers - any recommendation of internet developers in the UK?

Thanks,
BM


BMurfy,

I to was curious what could be the largest Print size while retaining a quality photo. I used my A40 on an Alaskan trip this past June and shot over 500 pictures. After organizing them, I was well pleased with 40-50, enough to put on my Web site.

http://community.webshots.com/album/41187048QPlpDk

I purchased an HP 5550 4800 X 1200 dpi printer and was amazed at the 8 X 10 Photo Quality of these .750meg .jgp files! Using just Office Depot Premium photo paper I obtained prints that look better than what appears on my wonderful 19" monitor!!

Although you mentioned using a developer to produce 5 X 8 prints, from what I've seen, they should "knock you socks off" !!!

Hope this info helps! Good Luck,

Ted

[JohnnyE]

I found a good chart decribing the print quality for each image resolution size on B&H's website. Go to http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bh2.sph/FrameWork.class?FNC=GetPage__Aindex_html___SID=F34 854FF990___page=charts/resolutionChartPopup.html. With the A40, the maximum resulution is 2 megapixels, so you should be able to print photo quality pictures up to 5x7". I hope this helps!