Some ads about those new 2MP Digicam such as Nikon CP950, Olympus 2000 say their pictures can be printed as large as 10" at the photographic quality. I've been using SignatureColor (www.signaturecolor.com) printing service for some of my small pictures (I believe they use Kodak) up to 3". I'm really interested in any experience of printing a 2MP pictures on any Photo printers. How big can you go if you want to keep the output quality really like a film photo ? Let's say regular size of film photo at 4" or 5" size, can you tell the difference from a film (developed at conventional lab, with regular 100,200,or 400 film, not professional level) ?

Any comments would be highly appreciated !

Yong

-- Yong Luo (yongl@lanl.gov), August 05, 1999

Answers

I have a CP950 and an Epson Photo 1200. I've printed a lot of 8x10's using injet quality paper and they look pretty darn good. I'm just experimenting now since I've only had the 950 & the 1200 for a couple of days. I plan on doing a few uncompressed prints on Epson's photo paper since I've heard the quality is even better. I use PhotoShop LE since it came with the 1200. I must say that it is an excellent program. There are some excellent articles at links at http://come.to/digitaldarkroom. Hope this helped some.

Later...Zeb

-- Zeb Wright (ZuluWhisky@msn.com), August 06, 1999.

I don't have my kodak dc280 2mp digicam yet (hopefully it will arrive tuesday) but I've printed some 8x10's from sample photos from different reviewers testing the dc280 on my HP Deskjet 712c w/ Kodak Photo RetII technology. prints on regular paper on best print mode come out great...i haven't tested on photo paper yet but i'm sure it would be even better

later

-- Paul (web69x@aol.com), August 15, 1999.

I think photo snobs with loupes won't be happy with 2mpix cams at 8 X 10 but many people will be happy at normal viewing distance. It's not going to be film quality at 8 X 10.

-- benoit (foo@bar.com), August 27, 1999.