Blow Up

[Ray Kilby]

I have just blown up an image taken of the NY skyline that is a meter across. I took it with my M8 and I am amazed that with no interpolation or any real work on the file that it has come out so well. Has anybody else been blowing up the images so large and what are their experiences regarding this.

 

[alexz]

I did few years back, obviously not by M8..🙂
Made it in my MF SLRs days, shot on 6x7, scanned by high end Scitex machine (turned out to be a bit too expensive for my liking), a little tweaking in PS (nearly 300 MB files sucked up my PC resources, wasn't much pleasure to spend a nearly hour for few basic adjustments) then printed up 1m x 70cm in pro lab. Now hangs on the wall in our living room...

 

[IGMeanwell]

When I first saw the title to this thread I thought was going to be about the movie ... that weird weird movie ... I mean what photographer really sneaks around like he's a ninja when he takes pictures 😛 ? Sorry I don't mean to hi-jack the thread but I just had to rant

 

[rbiemer]

Call me shallow, but I think I'll wait 'til I'm 90 before I get interested in girls in the 60's...

Now that I think of it, though, I think Nikons did get a guy more girls in the 60's than Leicas.

Rob

 

[igoesmyth]

I have just blown up an image taken of the NY skyline that is a meter across. I took it with my M8 and I am amazed that with no interpolation or any real work on the file that it has come out so well. Has anybody else been blowing up the images so large and what are their experiences regarding this.

Ray

At what resolution did you print at if you have a meter wide print? At 3936 x 2630 pixels and I use inches I get about 100 pixels per inch. Am I missing something??

 

[Pherdinand]

100 ppi is just fine for such a large image. You won't watch it from very close normally, and even if you do, you will be fooled by the fact that the image is all around you.

 

[Finder]

I have just blown up an image taken of the NY skyline that is a meter across. I took it with my M8 and I am amazed that with no interpolation or any real work on the file that it has come out so well. Has anybody else been blowing up the images so large and what are their experiences regarding this.

This should be no surprise as print size has no affect on how a print looks - it is an angular resolution problem, not a linear resolution problem. Make big prints and be happy.

 

[Ray Kilby]

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I don't mind anybody muscling in or taking over, go for it. As they other contributor said, 100 dpi is fine for a large 1 meter print. In fact get the dpi much higher and it becomes a bit unwieldy in terms of size.

I only wanted to say how amazed I was. So any comment is great.