Re: How big can you print from 3MP?

[Caveman]

I suppose you are aware that every digicam has a lowpass filter between 
the lens and the sensor. Unless the lens is so bad that there's no need 
for one. They call that "sensor tuned lens".

Mishka wrote:
you forgot to add "at the same iso seting".
since you have mentioned dpreview, according to their measurement,
canon D20 at 400 has pretty much as much noise as G3 at 100 and
G3 at iso 50 is as low noise as D20 at iso 200 (and better than D20 at 400).
size does matter, but far less if you don't shoot at iso 1600.
but read on:
the "4MP" G2 in my tests has never been able to actually resolve
more than 1.7 MP, which i attribute to the so-so lens. 

that can probably explain an apparently much better quality of images coming 
from dslr's much better than the "lower noise" mith: your 50/1.7 is
very likely to
give you a real 6MP (or very close to that number) photo, while even
with a no-noise,
4MP sensor cooled  with liquid nitrogen  G2 is still in reality 1.7 MP camera.

mishka
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:21:08 +0100, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

A file from a Canon
D30 (3MP) will print up much better than a file (say) from a 5MP Sony
DSC-F717 simply because the larger sensor of the D30 has less apparent
noise than the much smaller sensor of the Sony.