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I recently got involved in a conversation after a member of a Facebook group I belong to asked a question asking what was the largest size print he could obtain from the 16 megapixel X-Trans sensor.  This is a question I see quite a lot from photographers of all abilities.  I have been printed A2 images from 12mp sensor cameras since 2010 and still have several images the walls of my house taken on Nikon D90, D300S and Fujifilm X100.   All of these cameras have a 12mp sensor and the images I have printed range from A3 (42cm x 29.7cm), A2 (59.4cm x 42cm) up to 70cm x 50cm, all with no loss of quality when compared with the original image.  I also used a Nikon D800 and this camera boasts a massive 36mp sensor which certainly produces some impressive results but unless you print to billboard size you are not going to see any significant difference between the images produced by the D800 and the D300S, the main difference in quality is going to come from the lens...

On Saturday we visited two of Scotland's top tourist destinations near Falkirk, The Kelpies (blog post HERE ) and the Falkirk Wheel, which an impressive piece of modern engineering that links the Grand Union and the Forth and Clyde Canals. Historically, the two canals had been joined at Falkirk by a flight of 11 locks that stepped down across a distance of 1.5km, but these were dismantled in 1933, breaking the link.  To mark the regeneration of the region plans were drawn up to design and build the worlds first and only rotating boat lift and on the 24 May 2002 HM Queen Elizabeth opened the Falkirk Wheel. The Falkirk Wheel rotates to take a tourist boat to the top The Falkirk Wheel rotates to take a tourist boat to the top The Falkirk Wheel rotates to take a tourist boat to the top The roof of the Visitor Centre A boat enters The Falkirk Wheel at the top to take the trip back down A boat enters The Falkirk Wheel at the top to take t...