G6 print to 36"x24" !!!!!

I just wanted to share my tremendous success in printing my first large A1 super print at my local photo outlet. The size of the printed image was 36"x24" to be exact.

You can see the image below. (note the papermate kilometrico medium point blue pen on the bottom edge which measures about 5" to put things into perspective).

The photo i took of this poster was a rush job so pay no attention to the quality of this pic. All i can say is that when i look at this poster (any part) but especially the larger portrait to the left above the her name... the quality and detail (as indicated by crispness of hair) is outstanding !!!To the untrained eye at close level at about 15cm... no pixelisation is visible. The blending of colours and colour reproduction is fantastic !!!

I have to say that i am overally impressed with the turn out of the quality of this print and my G6 camera, not thinking that i would retain this quality going anything over 8x10. Boy was i wrong..

This print out is a gift for family friends and their daughter Kiara... hope they like..

In case your wondering... all i did for this was the following

All 4 photos were shot in raw.

All photos were outputted at 1000dpi via canon raw converter to 16bit tiff files.

Converted the tiff files in photoshop to 8bit, left the original larger portrature as the background, reduced the 3 other images to about 900x______ at 300dpi and imported them into the larger canvas, peformed all the fancy borders and glow effect and then enlarged the overall canvas and image to 9000x 6700 @ 300dpi, saved as a tiff (350 whopping megs) saved to cd and printed out at local photo outlet...

I am one happy G6 !!! owner... will be doing this definetely more !!!!

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I ordered a 16x20 a couple months ago from an on-line photo lab and I concluded it would be a good test of the image quality of the G6. It came out stunningly-sharp, and I could easily go to the 24x36 size as you made. I could never get that kind of crispness with film, even using my best optics, which are certianly superb.

I used the Large Superfine setting and I see no need to go with RAW, even at this extreme magnification.

Nice work Nabil - that looks like it will make a wonderful gift and with 7 megapixels - you should get some great large prints. One of the advantges that your G6 has over my G5.

On a TV show in the UK recently they did a 35mm photo and a digital camera photo and blew them both up to the size of the side of a building and belive it or belive it not both were ok.

If you can see the pixels , you are simply standing too close.....