Can D90 capture images for large prints ?

[noodles]

I have a shoot assignment to capture images that are required to be printed as door posters or potentially on the side of buses, I shoot in RAW on large ... will these images be high res enough for such printing ?

 

[Derrel]

Yes. Have you seen the web page showing the capturing and printing-out of two images printed literally, as large as the side of a building, first from 35mm color slide film in a Nikon F5, and then using a Nikon d-slr from roughly six years ago???

 

[Big Mike]

I bought a lens from a guy who put graphics on buses. He said that the images might be 36 pixels per inch of print.
So with a file size of 3216 x 2136, you could make an image that is 89" x 59"...and that's without any up-sampling of the image.

Of course, the photo won't look great from up close...but it would probably look fine as seen on a bus as it drives by.

Keep in mind that when blowing up images, you blow up the good and the bad...so do you best to ensure an optimum image. Use a tripod, MLU etc. Use a good quality lens and hopefully at an optimum aperture. Nail your exposure so you don't have to fix it in post.

 

[noodles]

Yes. Have you seen the web page showing the capturing and printing-out of two images printed literally, as large as the side of a building, first from 35mm color slide film in a Nikon F5, and then using a Nikon d-slr from roughly six years ago???

I haven't Derrel, would you mind sharing that link ? Thanks!

 

[noodles]

I bought a lens from a guy who put graphics on buses. He said that the images might be 36 pixels per inch of print.
So with a file size of 3216 x 2136, you could make an image that is 89" x 59"...and that's without any up-sampling of the image.

Of course, the photo won't look great from up close...but it would probably look fine as seen on a bus as it drives by.

Keep in mind that when blowing up images, you blow up the good and the bad...so do you best to ensure an optimum image. Use a tripod, MLU etc. Use a good quality lens and hopefully at an optimum aperture. Nail your exposure so you don't have to fix it in post.

Thanks Mike, good tip I will make sure I bring my tripod and my MC-DC2.