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A 12x18" image (gray box) indicating how a 3:2 ratio of the 3072 x 2048 CMOS sensor overlaid on 13" x 19" paper (white) would appear.
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The EPSON 2200 printer will accept 13x19" (Super B, aka Super A3) media. So what kind of image quality can you expect from a high-resolution image taken with the Canon D60?
The Canon D60 can take pictures at various resolutions (and jpeg compression schemes), but the maximum resolution of this 6.3 megapixel (MP) camera is 3072x2048 (maintaining the 3:2 aspect ratio of 35mm). How will this raw pixel count translate to image quality on popular media sizes, with an appropriate margin?
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paper size (inches)
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image size (inches)
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effective resolution (dpi)
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8.5 x 11
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6.67 x 10
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307
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11 x 17
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10 x 15
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205
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13 x 19
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12 x 18
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171
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24 x 34
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20 x 30
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102
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dpi = dots per inch
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In practice, image processing software (such as Adobe Photoshop) is used to resample (or "rez-up") larger-sized prints to achieve "photographic quality", which is generally considered to be between 200 and 300 dpi. Check out more printing tricks in our article on the Epson 2200.
How large can you go? I recently saw a perfectly clear, 42" high portrait taken with a 4 MP Fuji camera. The image was produced by a commercial photography lab on their LightJet printer here in Denver. For myself, I'm planning on taking a nice landscape with the D60, and having them produce a large LightJet print, just to see how it fares.
Want to know more? Check out the Luminous Landscapes article " Canon EOS D60 vs. Medium Format".
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