But youre not enlarging a digital file physically like a negative where you talk e.g. 3x or 8x enlargements from LF or 35mm negatives. youre printing a file of a certain size dependin go the MP count, not? What I see matters is whether the lenses are capable of resolving to the pixelsize whether it is a 24mp apsc or 35mm or a 50mp 35mm sensor.
Im stupid I dont get it (n)
It's just an analogy. sk66 is using an old fashion enlarger to print from negatives as an analogy, because printing from a digital image files does sometimes feels somewhat
akin to printing from negatives.
A 2MP camera will result in an image size of something like 1600 x 1200 pixels. A 14MP camera will result in an image size of something like 6000 x 4000. (According to what I read somewhere on the Internet, but let's just use them as an example.)
Print each on a big paper. The 2MP will look small in the middle of the paper. The 14MP will look a little bigger, but still surrounded by white space.
If you want the picture to fill the whole paper, you tell the printer to
fit to page or something like that, different printers and different software vary, but they usually give you an option to fit to page.
This is the computer and printer's way of stretch out the image to fill the whole page. It feels like similar to moving the enlarger up so you see the negative image fill up the paper.
It do not physically move an actual enlarger inside the computer. It is when you print them out and look at the image, it reminds you of the old fashion darkroom printing with an enlarger.
When printing a negative, you will find a tiny image on a big paper, so you move the enlarger up to fill the paper. When printing from a printer, you will find a tiny image on a big paper, so you tell the computer to fit to page.
With a computer software, you zoom in or fit to page, but it feels like you enlarge a negative. Different technology but somewhat same job.