"Best" Big printing based on camera megapixels

[stevet1]

I ran across a graphic that shows the "best" large printing based on the megapixels of your camera that I thought I would share.

A Post by Mark Hughes in digital-photog4aphy-school.com
https://digital-photography-school.com/print-images-big-how-to-resize-photos/
"How to Correctly Resize Photos to Print Images Big"

For example, if you are printing at 300dpi, the "best" large printing for a 24mp camera is 20" X 13". (20X300 = 6,000. 13" X 300 = 3,900. 6,000 X 3,900 = 23,400,000)

I found this pretty helpful.

Steve Thomas

[p4pictures]

That indeed makes sense. However once the print gets quite large the viewing distance needs to increase to see it all and then you can compromise on the dpi number and still get a great print. I have made a print from an EOS R6 image that is 20MP and the print is 60 inches x 90 inches on semi-gloss paper and everyone who sees it does not complain about the "low resolution".

[Tronhard]

Definitely, pixel peeping is not a true representation of how the vast majority of people will comfortably view an image.  I shot a billboard and that was with a 6MP camera.  If you walked up to it: yes, it was awful, but you watch it driving by at a distance, which it is designed for and, as such, works fine.