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> Medium format or large format film would be a better choice than 6 MP digital. 35mm won't buy you much. > Perhaps a little if you shoot Velvia or another fine grain film that resolves well. I haven't printed larger than 13 > x19 from 6 MP digital (which is quite excellent), but Tan and some others report good results at 20 x 30. > > Interpolation method would probably be important. And viewing distance enters into it. From six feet away, a > 20x30 from digital probably looks fine. From a foot away, I'm sure it's quite loose. I'll admit that from less than a foot away it's loose. But just as "loose" as 35mm (I'm talking Velvia or Provia printed via internegative in a "wet" darkroom; or even the same films scanned with a good scanner and printed on comprable printers; I can't comment on color print film since I never used it). Anyway the prints in my living room stand up to being viewed from pretty close to see some fine details such as sailboat rigging and cormorant crest feathers. With the right process, using interpolation, you can get amazing results from a 6.1MP starting image. Equal to, or surpassing, 35mm slide film. You should give it a try, Paul. www.mpix.com has printed several 20x30s for me from interpolated 6.1MP images from the ist D. I was able to upload several ~200MB 16 bit tiffs and the price for a 20x30 is reasonable enough to do it as a "test" Christian
