A2 prints fromK7 vs K10D
My earliest digital pictures were on a 6mp *ist DS and I got perfectly sharp A3 prints with that.
From my 10mp K10 I've had A3 prints accepted in an international exhibition - one was a heavily cropped image so that in effect it was 2.8mp.
Some of my camera club colleagues had massive A1 prints done for an exhibition at The Sage in Gateshead. The cameras used were mainly in the 8-10mp range and included earlier Pentax, Canon and Nikon models.
So yes, a 10mp K10 can well be used to produce A2 size prints.
david
It's not something that's noticed in isolation, but if you printed from both cameras and looked at the prints side by side the difference would be obvious.
One is CCD and the other is CMOS so it depends on your shooting style which would be best.
For low iso shots the K10D might be better because it gives you a cleaner photo and has more dynamic range, for long exposures of high iso shots the K7 would be better.
Who is better for large prints... it depends I think the extra pixels of the K7 helps but the pixels of the k10D would look better then the K7 at low ISO.
So is the quality of the K10D good enough to beat the quantity of the k7... I don't know
Another advantage of the larger sensor is the "cropability"...large, detailed prints are still easily possible even on images which have relatively heavy cropping
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Your comments of quality vs quantity worries me a bit Stephan. My camera never comes out of ASA 100 so possibly the K10D is better for my purposes.
Why is life full of such difficult decisions. And i dont mean what's happening tomorrow.
Don't get me wrong the K7 has a good sensor and you very possibly can see the merits of the higher pixel count in your large prints.
Maybe someone can offer you a RAW file to print out, you can then see if you notice a difference or not.
Btw the K7 has some great features that you might like though.
- Better handling
- Auto levelling sensor
- 100% viewfinder
- liveview
- quieter shutter
Just to name few things
You said yourself that you've been pleased with your results so far, so treat yourself to a new lens instead.
Great mind think alike Hefty you beat me to the same conclusion!
You could think about printing A1 size instead
Actually there's a theory that the pixel count doesn't matter once you pass a certain point, say 5 mega pix. The reason is that the larger the print, the further back you stand - so while you peer at a 6x4 inch print, you stand several feet away from a wall mounted A2.
But the theory doesn't hold water for me, because whenever I see a digital print, I am not interested in the composition, lighting or artistic merit. I just press my face against the image and see if I can see the pixels.
But the theory doesn't hold water for me, because whenever I see a digital print, I am not interested in the composition, lighting or artistic merit. I just press my face against the image and see if I can see the pixels.
Pixels on paper, don't you mean inkt drops?
Btw you can see this clearly with billboards, they look great at a distance but close up they are just dots.
But the theory doesn't hold water for me, because whenever I see a digital print, I am not interested in the composition, lighting or artistic merit. I just press my face against the image and see if I can see the pixels.
LOL! Too true!
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