resolution?

[Kalle-bah]

Slides or colornegatives. Wich is the best choise for larger prints?
Are the difference big? Will a colornegative look nice on a 20x30cm print?
Wich gives the best scanning result?

 

[tetrisattack]

A proficient digital darkroomist should be able to make a satisfactory print of that size from almost any 35mm slide or negative.

Most scanners tend to have an easier time with negatives because they are inherently lower contrast than slides. On the other hand, color correcting a positive scan is theoretically easier because you have a perfect reference handy, but that's an ultimately meaningless activity unless your monitor is calibrated and your printer is profiled for your paper.

Either way, 20x30cm isn't really pushing it. Your scanner is the resolution bottleneck, not the source image.

 

[Kalle-bah]

Thank you for the info!
Another guy on another forum told me that a colornegative
would not look nice in that format. He didn´t mentioned slides however.
He said that before the "digital" era it was impossible to do that large prints.

 

[40oz]

that "other guy on another forum" didn't know what he was talking about.

 

[aad]

Thank you for the info!
Another guy on another forum told me that a colornegative
would not look nice in that format. He didn´t mentioned slides however.
He said that before the "digital" era it was impossible to do that large prints.

Dear Lord! Can you imagine that.

 

[jaffa_777]

yes, I see, this makes complete sense. Your 'info guy' is saying that before a few years ago wedding photographers using low contrast print film weren't able to blow any pictures up for their clients past A4 size. Hmmm, but why has my mummy and daddy got a big picture on the wall of their wedding, and why has my nanna and poppa got a big picture......... They flew into the future with time machines and went to Future Labs to get their film scanned and printed and and and and......😀

 

[tetrisattack]

Can't go past A4? Hah!

I had a guest photographer, Alice Wheeler, in the digital lab where I work (at a college). She wanted to make a gigantic print of Kurt Cobain's face for the Tacoma Art Museum.

Here's the shot:
http://www.alicewheeler.com/kurt.cobain.at.pier.63.dec.13.1993.htm

We made a 44 by 66 inch print of this shot on an Epson 9800.

We scanned the negative on a Nikon Coolscan 9000, did some color corrections, and upressed it for printing. It looked fantastic, much better than we figured it would. You could see the grain, but not in a bad way, she chalked that up to Agfa Ultra Color ISO 50 film.

...she said she shot it on a point-and-shoot.

Never believe the people who tell you it can't be done. 🙂

 

[Superbus_]

Can't go past A4? Hah!

I had a guest photographer, Alice Wheeler, in the digital lab where I work (at a college). She wanted to make a gigantic print of Kurt Cobain's face for the Tacoma Art Museum.

Here's the shot:
http://www.alicewheeler.com/kurt.cobain.at.pier.63.dec.13.1993.htm

We made a 44 by 66 inch print of this shot on an Epson 9800.

We scanned the negative on a Nikon Coolscan 9000, did some color corrections, and upressed it for printing. It looked fantastic, much better than we figured it would. You could see the grain, but not in a bad way, she chalked that up to Agfa Ultra Color ISO 50 film.

...she said she shot it on a point-and-shoot.

Never believe the people who tell you it can't be done. 🙂

I can understand Alice: I like the music of Cobain and this picture is great. He died too early and too young...