On one hand, the extra megapixels mean you can make enormous prints — or, more practically, that you can print just a portion of a photo with good quality.
Since the 1980s, the publication of a Jean M. Auel book has often called for enormous print runs - about one million copies - and elaborate displays in the front of bookstores to draw in readers.
Miss Lily's is a little racy, too; the name plays on cakes of both the carrot and the cannabis variety, and an enormous print of a busty girl in a wet T-shirt hangs by the entrance.
In the late 80's, he produced a series of enormous prints of starry night skies from a set of negatives that he bought from the European Southern Observatory.
However, there is nothing simple about an enormous print on a basketball uniform, which generally speaking, has less surface area to work with than other sports jerseys because there are no sleeves (except on Christmas).
What has amazed me this week, as the new recommendations have generated enormous print attention (including a story in The New York Times that remains at the top of the most e-mailed list) and air time and discussion on blogs, is that the conversation has to take place at all.
The benefits of medium- and large-format film are still substantial for things like portraiture, landscapes, and anything that requires enormous prints.
The wooden stick my local Nepali guide, Siteram, is carrying does little to reassure me as we follow the enormous prints through the dry forest of Bardia National Park in the far-western lowlands of Nepal, home to the country's largest remaining population of Bengal tigers.
So it was at Glastonbury last weekend, when an audience member at Kanye West's set chose to wave an enormous flag printed with a still image from a sex tape showing Kardashian performing oral sex on her former partner Ray J.
She produced an enormous quantity of printed textiles for a chain of Netherlands department stores.
This was especially effective when the last two models appeared wearing dresses with enormous rearing horses printed on the fronts.
