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[marko138]

Tigs...how is the printing quality on that sucker?

[Dave]

yo tigs shes a 7 1/2

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by Amblyopic

Oh FYI. You don't need an OMG stupid megapixel camera for decent quality prints.

For 8.5x11 I would say you need a minimum of 5MP, but after that, lens quality, focus quality, and color balancing become more important IMO.

Also you need to study what kind of compression algorithm is being used.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Amblyopic

Oh FYI. You don't need an OMG stupid megapixel camera for decent quality prints. Here's actually a good reference from believe it or not, Microsoft, regarding megapixel/printquality yadda yadda wtf ever. If you give a shit, read.[/URL]

I've seen quality 30X20 prints out of a 5MPix Olympus E-1. A travel/tourism shooting acquaintance of mine has had 30 FOOT banners up on the walls of Skydome, taken with his Canon 20D. You have to start with a quality shot; good camera, good lenses. from there you can up-scale to ridiculous levels. A little 5mm sensor with a 7.5mm lens just doesn't cut it, especially not when the 'camera' has been tweaked for consumer style output (over-saturated, over-sharpened).

[Homeslice]

An older camera I used to have had a compression routine where pixels close to each other would be forced into the same color. Even if you selected the "Fine" setting.

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by marko138

Tigs...how is the printing quality on that sucker?

Very,very good so far...although I apparently don't have the correct camera...J/K! As far as I can tell the pics look really good,heck I haven't even used my Picassa,Photoshop,Kodak or Canon programs to fix anything yet....I'm just printing them straight up and they look ok to me. As far as I'm concerned for $35 (after rebate) I don't see how I could have gone wrong!

[vickibocc]

Hate to tell ya but I got a $63 pair of dress pants for $8 thanks to a sale at Macy's plus signing up for the credit card (which i only use at macy's and pay off immediatly) plus the bonus discount for USING the macy's card.

I believe I win.

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by vickibocc

Hate to tell ya but I got a $63 pair of dress pants for $8 thanks to a sale at Macy's plus signing up for the credit card (which i only use at macy's and pay off immediatly) plus the bonus discount for USING the macy's card.

I believe I win.

Oh really? Well I just saved money on my auto insurance by switching to Geico!

[Amber Lamps]

Plus I bought a $800 ring of a discount jewelery site for $12!!!! Oh AND I got a pair of A* SMX Plus boots for $150 OTD at a dealership! Plus I used a coupon and got a large bag of Puppy Chow for $10

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Dave

yo tigs shes a 7 1/2

Here's an 8 on Ebay,I hear that they run a little small so...good luck!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Icon-...Q5fMerchandise