Largest 1D print you've seen

[timmyquest]

I'm doing a photoshoot for former wrestlers at my former school at a harley dearlship.

They are going to make a poster out of it, i'm not real sure how big of a poster but i'd think not much bigger then 20x30.

Think i've got anything to worry about?

[DocFrankenstein]

As long as you do your part...

Posters are not meant to be viewed like photographs. My Rebel can make a nice poster.

[FlyingPete]

I have had a image enlarged to 7 feet across from my G3 for a billboard looked fine from where it was suposed to be viewed (from the road), not so good closeup, but it wasn't possible to look at it close up after it was put up!

[MHaberman]

Timmy,

I have done 16x20 quite nicely from an older Sony 1.5MP D770. I have also done 24x36 from my 10D with out any complaints.
Somewhere I heard the old rule for viewing enlargements was to view from a distance that was equal or greater then the diagonal measurement of the enlargement. I have always used this rule when evaluating my enlargements and have found that they are more then acceptable when viewed at this distance. I think if you use this as a guideline for viewing distance and keep your "PPI" (Pixels per inch) above 80 you should be doing fine.
Another note, I use Qimage to do ALL of my printing and I feel this has had a major (positive) impact in the quality of my enlargement output.
-Matt

[timmyquest]

Timmy,

I have done 16x20 quite nicely from an older Sony 1.5MP D770. I have also done 24x36 from my 10D with out any complaints.
Somewhere I heard the old rule for viewing enlargements was to view from a distance that was equal or greater then the diagonal measurement of the enlargement. I have always used this rule when evaluating my enlargements and have found that they are more then acceptable when viewed at this distance. I think if you use this as a guideline for viewing distance and keep your "PPI" (Pixels per inch) above 80 you should be doing fine.
Another note, I use Qimage to do ALL of my printing and I feel this has had a major (positive) impact in the quality of my enlargement output.
-Matt

Thanks for the post. To be honest i'm not sure who will be doing the printing. I'm not sure if thats up to me or not. I'll deal with that when i reach that road.

[Agaric]

They are going to make a poster out of it, i'm not real sure how big of a poster but i'd think not much bigger then 20x30.



I would look into a program called Genuine Fractals. http://www.lizardtech.com/ trial version is free for up to 20 uses. I have seen work done with that program and IMO it is very impressive.
But that size should be easy to print without any interpolation. Of course a little interpolation will go a long way. Best of luck to you.

[sGu]

I second Genuine Fractals

[MHaberman]

Timmy,
I should clarify my last statement.
I rarely print my own files. I use Qimage to do all of my post processing and interpolation which I then output to a JPEG and deliver on via FTP or CD to my local lab.
They request that the files be 300 DPI, sRGB and level 9 Jpeg quality. When using Qimage all I have to specify is the print size, DPI, Colorspace and quality level, Qimage takes care of doing all the interpolation, etc.
Hope this helps,
Matt

[chris.bailey]

I have done a fair bit of poster sized shots of buildings and have concluded the best thing to do is as little as possible. Genuine fractals will intoduce some artefacts that are fine on 2 x blow ups but when it comes to poster sized shots they show.

A friend of mine did a multi frame 360 panorama of a building site on a 1dMkII that was blown up to about 18ft high x 400 ft long and was stuck on the outside of the hoarding around the site. He did nothing other than to adjust colour balance and contrast and convert to black and white. The finished article that came from the billboard printers looks really impressive.

[DeeplyDigital]

Timmy,

here is one I did earlier this year,

http://www.celticviews.com/deeplydigital/poster1.jpg

this is not a really large poster but just to show of what can happen
to a 10D RAW file which turned 3MB JPEG and was emailed...
the photo was originally meant to be included in a concert programme

Just do your usual stuff and no, you don't need to worry about
anything.

Julia
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[duke]

I have an Old Sony Cybersshot DSC D770 , you have any ideas I can sale this one for how much ?

[KennyG]

4ft by 6ft for one of mine used by a sports car manufacturer. Looks stunning in their reception. Not bad from a mere 4mp.

[iwatkins]

Done a few 4 foot x 4 foot posters from my 10D, they look great up on the wall. Don't look too hot when your eye is 2 inches away, but there again, not much would. :)

[tim]

I've done 30x20in prints from my old 300D, they look fantastic from 1 meter away or more. It works better if it's not a scene with masses of detail.

[Avalonthas]

i think im American units i have done about 5 or 6 feet wide with my 20D and it looked great, although like mention, its supposed to be viewed by a distance. So be confident in urseld and shoot in ur highest resolution and it'll be fine. Even if its not big enough, where else are they going to get it other then large format film which would prolly cost them more. So dont worry