What makes good coaster pictures?

Jeff: that Target price is a sale - I don't know what the regular price is. I've never gotten reprints from there (except for the occasional Kodak machine), but they told me it's about a 1 day turnaround.

I just came across a site today - iPhotoshop.com. They have 25¢ prints and good prices on other sizes. I'm going to try it out and see how it goes. Their pro site talks about their equipment. They also offer FTP upload on the pro site.

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*** This post was edited by Gemini 6/14/2003 8:47:24 PM ***

I fear that the whole traditional process may get lost someday. Yeah, digital can do nice things, but there is something magical about being in the darkroom and watching images emerge. I have a digital camera so I know how easy it is and all. Sigh, there is nothing wrong with it, I just want to stick to tradition. (That doesn't mean that I am trying to say you are all bad for using digital!) I just wondered how other people felt about it.

A good thing about digital is that it eleminates all the chemicals and toxic fumes. It saves paper as well. I guess in a lot of ways digital is a better thing as far as the environment goes. How large can you get digital images printed? Could you get them made mural sized or would that only be possible for speciality operations?

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It would depend entirely on the resolution of the camera, BeccaRaptor.

The 10D that these guys are talking about is 6 megapixels I believe. I'm not entirely positive but I think you could pull a pretty decent 20x30 out of that. Certainly nothing as large as you're thinking with a major loss in quality.

If you scan a frame of 35mm film at 2400dpi you're getting just shy of 8 megapixels. I get pretty clean 20x30's at that resolution.

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Believe it or not, I've gotten a few pictures from my 3.3 megapixel Olympus blown up to 20x30. They were good images to begin with, and if you KNOW what to look for you can find some things, but framed behind glass, most people can't tell at all. I gave my friend Andrea a 20x30 print of this shot (minus my name, of course ;) ) for her birthday -- she was with me on that trip. She had it professionally framed, and the people who framed it didn't believe her when she said it was digital. (For the curious, I had it printed at oPhoto.com, which is now a part of Kodak)

Most of the time I wouldn't attempt prints that large. I CAN find fringing, some pixellation, and such if I really look. 8x10's come out amazingly well, though.

With a 10D I would be very confident going up that high.

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Yes, the 10D can do a 20x30 no problem. I've heard of the Nikon D1x (5.8 mp) doing billboards in fact, though one obviously never gets close enough to a billboard to see the pixels anyway.

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