Digital BW, The Print

In my experience, it depends largely on your lens and your methods, tripods
vs. hand-held (though personally I rarely use a tripod).  I use a 1Ds Mark
III and get my best shots with the 70-200/2.8 IS L. When interpolation is
needed (and I rarely do this) I use PS bicubic smoother or, ever better (and
for some reason people seldom mention this) Lightroom, which has the best
upsizing algorithm. But I shy away from large prints as a matter of course.
I think the large print mania will die out sooner or later. I print on the
Epson 3800, which is also a 13" printer, and 13" is good enough for me. Just
made a series of 12" X 18 full-frame prints this afternoon. That's as far as
I care to go, unless there's a compelling reason. Haven't found one yet !

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Brian Corll

 

From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sarah
Renkes
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 10:52 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] how large can I print? (interpolation?)

 

Hi all,

I'm appealing to all you master printers here on this forum, specifically
those of you who are lucky enough to own or have access to a printer capable
of printing larger than 13x19, which is the largest output possible on my
dastardly r1800.

I have read conflicting things about how many megapixels are needed to
produce a "photo quality" print at a certain size, and I'm also a bit
confused as to how interpolation works in this arena.

My Canon 1Ds (the flagship dinosaur) is an 11 megapixel camera that gives me
62 mb files. Pretty small at this juncture in the technology tornado.
Everything i have read so far tells me 13x19 is optimal size, but I have an
image I'd like to print larger.

How large can I print and still have decent detail? 

thanks!
Sarah



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