Originally posted by mahukey 1) I have a Pentax K10d and have been very happy with it so far, that is up until I needed to take pictures of a play in a gym. The camera just cannot handle low lighting situations.
2) But then I was trying to make a calendar for my family with some pictures I took in JPEG, and the company I was trying to have make the calendars gave me a error message that the pictures would be blurry because of the pixels.
*1) The newer generation camera's (K-5, D7000, 60D) are all capable of making photo's in much darker situations than a K10D.
I have both a K10D and a K-5, there is a *world* of difference here.
You will be surprised...
*2) The calendar software is buggy, or the pictures you are trying to upload were edited resulting is less resolution.
The K10D resolution is ample for 8x11 inches.
I've made plenty A4 prints on my high res printer.
The Canon printing software is very picky about resolution. It is *no* problem at all!
**2) More so, buying a new camera will hardly change this.
Let me explain:
What is the difference (pixel wisse) between a K10D and a latest greatest camera like the K-5 or D7000 for that matter?
The K10D is 10Mpixels, vs the K-5 / Nikon D7000 which are 16 Mpixels.
Size the pixels are placed in a rectangle, the resolution (pixels / cm2 or inch2) will only improve as the root of the number of pixels.
Since all these sensors have a higth / width ratio of 2/3, the resolution of a 10 mega pixel camera is not all that better of a 16 mega pixel camera.
Facts from the datasheets:
K10D resolution = 3872 x 2592 pixels = 352 dots per inch (most printshops can only do 300dpi max!)
K-5 resolution = 4928 x 3264 pixels = 448 dots per inch
D7000 resolution = 4928 x 3264 pixels (same as K-5)
This means that a K10D
only has (4928 - 3872) / 4928 = 21.2%
less resolution that a 3 generations newer K-5!
There is something wrong with the program of your calendar supplier. Really.
Or you made an user error.
Cheers, Bert