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Minimum Size Digital cam for magazine cover

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Posted by ron smith on January 29, 2007 at 4:20 PM
I have a Canon 350d with 8mp
I can get a jpg of something like 3500 x 2500
and a RAW file too.
Is this what magazine use nowadays or do we need 12mp

Ron (brand new)
Posted by Darwin Wiggett on January 29, 2007 at 4:27 PM
No you can easily do magazine covers with an 8MP camera as long as you have good in-camera technique and post processing technique. Darwin
Posted by Bob Steele on January 29, 2007 at 7:54 PM
I've seen an outstanding cover from a vertical crop of a horizontal 4MP Canon 1D image. Of course the original was razor sharp and perfectly exposed, allowing for reasonable interpolation.
Posted by Kim Kaiser on January 31, 2007 at 12:30 PM
i had one from the D30, what was that 3mp,, on Birding Magazine several years ago,,probably more of a fluke, but it still gave a very nice image on the cover