How big of a photo can I develop with a Nikon D5100? - 1

How big of a photo can I develop with a Nikon D5100?

Here's what I've come up with.
The Nikon D5100 can produce a picture 4928 pixels by 3264 pixels in the (L) JPEG setting. I have attached a screenshot from Walgreen's website showing there image size recommendations for poster printing. If you take an otherwise perfect picture it looks like you could print up to a 24" x 36".

With the 16.2 mp resolution of your D5100, the right lens and exposure, you're pretty much unlimited as to photo size.
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Read where someone used a lower resolution camera for a 40' x 60' print here.
http://www.dpreview.com/...ad/3366891

And here's stories about billboards being made from 6 mp images.

With my D40 (6 megapixel) camera, I've had my shots blown up to 4 or 5 feet for a trade show. People are looking at the image from afar, so the coarse dpi used looked good.

It's a really strange question 'Matthew'…

I'm 'Old School' and worked a lot with 100 iso print film… If I correctly exposed a shot and wanted a poster print I could manage 20x16in from print film… Not every shot works as a 'poster'… It's really only the 'special' ones that tend to get that treatment.

The D5100 gives 'me' a lot more to work with than 100 iso print film, if I was throwing an album together it would contain images that were 6x4, 5x7 and 10x8 inches… With the D5100 I begin at 13x11 and 14x8 inches to suit the different screen sizes…

The D5100 in my opinion would out perform in quality what I produced with print film… I actually use one regularly and the quality it spits out constantly amazes me.