Is my image really too small for printing to A3

trican

Hi all,

I have a photo, which is a crop from my 12.3 megapixel Nikon D90, which now has 3121x2331 pixels . The tutor on my photography evening course says the resolution is too low to print to A3 size - The photo seems to have ~130-140 pixels per inches vertically and horizontally. Therefore is it just a matter of increasing the sampling rate to double what it is now via something like bicubic interpolation - to get a acceptable ppi?

Or if not what should I do?


Many thanks!

stcstc

tell the tutor it will happily print

although i think what the tutor is saying is that it doesnt have enough native resolution without up sampling

but i could quite happily print from that if the shot is nice and sharp etc

and no one would know

bufff

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stcstc

if you want me to look at it, will quite happily

trican

thanks for the advice stcstc - I've dropped you a pm with a link to the photo

trican

This is the image




This is the link to the full size image

stcstc

that image should look fine around A3 in size

trican

thanks stcstc - much appreciated. So its fine without resampling or is resampling necessary for A3?

stcstc

well i print from a rip so it would resample it for me


but if i was printing from photoshop i would upsample it too

magicbastarder

an A3 print is not going to be generally scrutinised from several inches away, so you won't really have to stick to the standard 300DPI you'd like on a 6x4.