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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
02-19-2016, 08:47 AM
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More MP means more information. The question is whether this information can be used by the printer, and whether it will be noticed by the viewers.
You can take 50MP camera and an 8MP and print on a business card. Printers will probably not be capable of putting all of that 50MP onto such a small area anyway, so difference will not be significant.
You can print both of those cameras on billboard by a road. And looking up close, the 50MP one will have more detail, will look nice and crisp. But passing motorists on the highway, from a distance of 50m, will never notice a difference.
So, you have to answer your questions yourself. How big will you print? Can the printer put so many pixels on that paper size? Who is doing the printing (if its just a small supermarket print box, then you can assume they have no idea what they are doing and they will edit, degrade your photos before print)? Will the audience look at it closely enough to notice any more MP? Will they care?
You can do a test. Many large photos you see on billboards, buses, buildings.. are actually really poor quality if you look at them close up. Companies often use free stock photo jpegs and rescale them, so the quality ends up really bad. But nobody notices and nobody cares. But maybe you should care, maybe your clients would care, who knows. Do as you wish. Just read up on DPI and viewing distance (actually, above posts already did a fine job explaining this)
Edit: That said, you should definitely buy the Pentax FF. And also a new computer to handle all that extra data and latest raw software with good colour profiles. Buy a monitor with high quality output, and a calibration tool to calibrate the monitor.
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