it's pushing it, yes.. but i wouldn't be supprised if it looked half decent... On one of my summer vacations, i took a pic of my friend's iguana. Without thinking, i forgot i had left the camera at 3mp instead of the usual 5mp.. My friend ha a 42" wide printer, so he offered to do a print for me. He prints on canvas, not paper, so it's a bit different :
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I though what the hell, it wasn't costing me anything, so he did a 16x20 of my iguana pic, at 3mp, and it turned out great!
here's the pic i sent (resized of course :) )
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and here's the print:
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(it looks kinda low contrast in that pic, but thats cuz of the glossyness of the print and the flash i used, it really does look like the link i have to my pic..). In any case, i wouldn't hesitate to get another 3mp pic printed that size, and even more excited about getting a 5mp one made, but i imagine that the material makes a big difference. It would probably just look like a big blur on photo paper...With the textured canvas, it makes it feel like a painting :)
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