D60 Print Resolution Help?

Howdy All –

I'm putting together a shoot on which I will be using my D60 - no money for lab work. My client seemed a little nervous about the resolution after I gave the pixel dimensions. I have mostly printed in the 8x10 range on inkjet.

I know this is a loaded question but, how large do you think you can go with a raw capture? Does anyone have good experience with enlarging resolution in Photoshop? Any experience with Genuine Fractals?

Thank you in advance for all your insight!

– Jerry

Jerry S said:

Howdy All –

I'm putting together a shoot on which I will be using my D60 - no
money for lab work. My client seemed a little nervous about the
resolution after I gave the pixel dimensions. I have mostly printed
in the 8x10 range on inkjet.

I know this is a loaded question but, how large do you think you
can go with a raw capture? Does anyone have good experience with
enlarging resolution in Photoshop? Any experience with Genuine
Fractals?

Thank you in advance for all your insight!

– Jerry

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Hi Jerry,

I have successfully enlarged RAW files to A3+ using Genuine Fractals. GF certainly does a very good job of interpolation, in my opinion better than Photoshop but there are other ways. Although 300 ppi is the industry standard, excellent results can be obtained at 8 X10 through decreasing the ppi say to 200.
Good luck!

Regards,

Denise

Denise said:

Jerry S said:

Howdy All –

I'm putting together a shoot on which I will be using my D60 - no
money for lab work. My client seemed a little nervous about the
resolution after I gave the pixel dimensions. I have mostly printed
in the 8x10 range on inkjet.

I know this is a loaded question but, how large do you think you
can go with a raw capture? Does anyone have good experience with
enlarging resolution in Photoshop? Any experience with Genuine
Fractals?

Thank you in advance for all your insight!

– Jerry

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Hi Jerry,
I have successfully enlarged RAW files to A3+ using Genuine
Fractals. GF certainly does a very good job of interpolation, in
my opinion better than Photoshop but there are other ways.
Although 300 ppi is the industry standard, excellent results can be
obtained at 8 X10 through decreasing the ppi say to 200.
Good luck!

Regards,

Denise

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Jerry,

I routinely print D60 images to 20in X 30in. on the Lightjet 5000 and using Fractal to res-up to 300dpi. The result are excellent, even viewing the prints at arm length they are very sharp and detail.

The first time I saw the enlarged print my jaw actually drop to the floor because the image quality from the D60 was so clean that it enable this kind of enlargement.

SFL

I've heard that soem tof the mini lab printers have built in interpolation software (better than GF I understand). Does anybody know which ones or is it something the lab must purchase separately form the printer? How big can this interpolation make the d60/10d resolution go?

Kyle

SFLshooter said:

Denise said:

Jerry S said:

Howdy All –

I'm putting together a shoot on which I will be using my D60 - no
money for lab work. My client seemed a little nervous about the
resolution after I gave the pixel dimensions. I have mostly printed
in the 8x10 range on inkjet.

I know this is a loaded question but, how large do you think you
can go with a raw capture? Does anyone have good experience with
enlarging resolution in Photoshop? Any experience with Genuine
Fractals?

Thank you in advance for all your insight!

– Jerry

Click to expand...

Hi Jerry,
I have successfully enlarged RAW files to A3+ using Genuine
Fractals. GF certainly does a very good job of interpolation, in
my opinion better than Photoshop but there are other ways.
Although 300 ppi is the industry standard, excellent results can be
obtained at 8 X10 through decreasing the ppi say to 200.
Good luck!

Regards,

Denise

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Jerry,

I routinely print D60 images to 20in X 30in. on the Lightjet 5000
and using Fractal to res-up to 300dpi. The result are excellent,
even viewing the prints at arm length they are very sharp and
detail.
The first time I saw the enlarged print my jaw actually drop to the
floor because the image quality from the D60 was so clean that it
enable this kind of enlargement.

SFL

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Not sure how large, but the lab I use has a Lightjet 5000 as well and they warn users not to use GF, Qimage, etc because the interpolation results are much better out of the LightJet.

Kyle Burt said:

Kyle

SFLshooter said:

Denise said:

Jerry S said:

Howdy All –

I'm putting together a shoot on which I will be using my D60 - no
money for lab work. My client seemed a little nervous about the
resolution after I gave the pixel dimensions. I have mostly printed
in the 8x10 range on inkjet.

I know this is a loaded question but, how large do you think you
can go with a raw capture? Does anyone have good experience with
enlarging resolution in Photoshop? Any experience with Genuine
Fractals?

Thank you in advance for all your insight!

– Jerry

Click to expand...

Hi Jerry,
I have successfully enlarged RAW files to A3+ using Genuine
Fractals. GF certainly does a very good job of interpolation, in
my opinion better than Photoshop but there are other ways.
Although 300 ppi is the industry standard, excellent results can be
obtained at 8 X10 through decreasing the ppi say to 200.
Good luck!

Regards,

Denise

Click to expand...

Jerry,

I routinely print D60 images to 20in X 30in. on the Lightjet 5000
and using Fractal to res-up to 300dpi. The result are excellent,
even viewing the prints at arm length they are very sharp and
detail.
The first time I saw the enlarged print my jaw actually drop to the
floor because the image quality from the D60 was so clean that it
enable this kind of enlargement.

SFL

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I've printed SEVERAL D60 images on 13x19 paper with my Epson 1280 and have been thrilled with what came out. In many cases these images were partial crops so it wasn't even the full 6MP being printed. 2048x3072 is about 150dpi at 13x19, which is perfectly detailed unless you're getting out a magnifying glass and looking for the ink droplets. ;-)

If you want, print this image on a 5x7 and then you can compare what the various "available" resolutions will look like. (Make sure you print the big version)

http://www.pbase.com/image/10302684

--lj

Jerry S said:

Howdy All –

I'm putting together a shoot on which I will be using my D60 - no
money for lab work. My client seemed a little nervous about the
resolution after I gave the pixel dimensions. I have mostly printed
in the 8x10 range on inkjet.

I know this is a loaded question but, how large do you think you
can go with a raw capture? Does anyone have good experience with
enlarging resolution in Photoshop? Any experience with Genuine
Fractals?

Thank you in advance for all your insight!

– Jerry

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Jerry S said:

Howdy All –

I'm putting together a shoot on which I will be using my D60 - no
money for lab work. My client seemed a little nervous about the
resolution after I gave the pixel dimensions. I have mostly printed
in the 8x10 range on inkjet.

I know this is a loaded question but, how large do you think you
can go with a raw capture? Does anyone have good experience with
enlarging resolution in Photoshop? Any experience with Genuine
Fractals?

Thank you in advance for all your insight!

– Jerry

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--Your RAW images taken with the D60 when converted to TIFF will yield about a 42 megabyte file with picture dimention size of about 13" x 17" on it's own. With a well exposed frame images of the above size are easily produced on a printer like the Epson 1280, all without blemishes or artifacts. When doing enhancements to the image in an imaging program like Photoshop stay in TIFF and work on a duplicate. Save the original and the duplicate, then and then only resize the image say to 11 x 14 or what ever and lastly crop to that size.

You may want to make a copy for the web so go from TIFF to JPEG and downsize the image so it's longest dimention is no more than 600 pixels. then Save As and choose about 6 for quality and set the DPI to 72 or 96. Finally add something like FW (For Web) to the name of the file so you will know which is which.

......Leo......

Relax,

Most people are very conservative about the size of print that can be produced successfully with a D60.

I've always liked large prints on my office wall - 16 X 20 is the smallest size I display. I routinely produce 24 X 36 inch prints from D60 raw files (this size requires no cropping). I don't use Genuine Fractals so I don't know how much better they would be if I did. However, I resample to 24 X 36 at 300 dpi and print on an HP500 DesignJet on Ilford High Gloss paper. When mounted and laminated they are real attention getters.

BTW I process with BB's "Combined" setting, adjust exposure and contrast in BB if necessary - adjust levels and do a very little USM just before I print.

The D60 prints look better at 24 X 36 than I ever got from 35 mm at 16 X 20. From inches away they look extremely smooth and from a normal viewing distance of 3 to 5 feet they are stunning.

Bottom line -- get good exposures -- well framed -- well focused and you will be pleasantly surprised with the results.
Ken Smith
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Jerry S said:

Howdy All –

I'm putting together a shoot on which I will be using my D60 - no
money for lab work. My client seemed a little nervous about the
resolution after I gave the pixel dimensions. I have mostly printed
in the 8x10 range on inkjet.

I know this is a loaded question but, how large do you think you
can go with a raw capture? Does anyone have good experience with
enlarging resolution in Photoshop? Any experience with Genuine
Fractals?

Thank you in advance for all your insight!

– Jerry

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Most people say you must have 300dpi. If you can get it, great, but I have had success with 8x12's at 180 dpi from a Noritsu 2901 from my local CostCo.

Even better is that this was done with a D30!!

Kenneth C. Smith said:

Most people are very conservative about the size of print that can
be produced successfully with a D60.

I've always liked large prints on my office wall - 16 X 20 is the
smallest size I display. I routinely produce 24 X 36 inch prints
from D60 raw files (this size requires no cropping). I don't use
Genuine Fractals so I don't know how much better they would be if I
did. However, I resample to 24 X 36 at 300 dpi and print on an
HP500 DesignJet on Ilford High Gloss paper. When mounted and
laminated they are real attention getters.

BTW I process with BB's "Combined" setting, adjust exposure and
contrast in BB if necessary - adjust levels and do a very little
USM just before I print.

The D60 prints look better at 24 X 36 than I ever got from 35 mm at
16 X 20. From inches away they look extremely smooth and from a
normal viewing distance of 3 to 5 feet they are stunning.

Bottom line -- get good exposures -- well framed -- well focused
and you will be pleasantly surprised with the results.
Ken Smith

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Howdy All –

I'm putting together a shoot on which I will be using my D60 - no
money for lab work. My client seemed a little nervous about the
resolution after I gave the pixel dimensions. I have mostly printed
in the 8x10 range on inkjet.

I know this is a loaded question but, how large do you think you
can go with a raw capture? Does anyone have good experience with
enlarging resolution in Photoshop? Any experience with Genuine
Fractals?

Thank you in advance for all your insight!

– Jerry

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