BIG print from 16MP m43

pic. Printing on canvas allows one to go a lot bigger than one would with the same file on regular paper. I use canvas a lot lately, especially for people where resolution is not very important.  It also can give a sort of painterly effect to the print that works well for portraits.

jwilliams wrote:

pic. Printing on canvas allows one to go a lot bigger than one would with the same file on regular paper. I use canvas a lot lately, especially for people where resolution is not very important. It also can give a sort of painterly effect to the print that works well for portraits.

That’s ok because I prefer canvas for big prints anyway, I like that painterly effect. I never really liked big prints on photo or regular paper. Basically it looks like a highly detailed painting, and I love the colors.

When viewed from a sane viewing distance, you can print essentially any size you want from an 8 megapixel file. The bigger the print, the further it needs to be viewed from to see the entire photo.

It's only when you get out the loupe/view the photo from a few inches away that 36, 42, 50mp resolution etc makes any difference in print quality.

As I run a studio I am printing all the time from tonnes of cameras old and new. There is more different in the choice of print tech than the camera tech at most normal sizes.

Of course as you print bigger more resolution helps, but this really kicks in in the 30" x 40" mark with close inspection, and we are talking about needs 36 mp and up to see a real difference.

A lot of that is due to how papers and printing actually robs resolution in the process.

I have a 30" x 40" print on my living room wall from an EM5.2 shot at night in london, it looks great!

I've printed up to 30x40 from the original E-M1 files and been very pleased with the results, both traditional prints and metal prints from Bay Photo through my Smugmug account.

That's a beautiful shot. I bet the print does look beautiful.

It does, I honestly didn't expect it to be that good at that size. And thinking it could have been even better if shot with a better lens and one of the newer cameras I'm confident now to do these kind of big prints

The 30x40 prints I have had made from the E-M1 were captured with the 12-40mm f2.8 and I did no kind of special re-sizing. Just loaded the jpegs processed from raw to my Smugmug account and ordered the prints.

Beyond a certain print size (I think 10x15) the lab does its own interpolation of files before printing so any "other" work I might have done could have just gotten in the way of how they (and most labs I believe) do this kind of large printing.

Gregm61 wrote:

The 30x40 prints I have had made from the E-M1 were captured with the 12-40mm f2.8 and I did no kind of special re-sizing. Just loaded the jpegs processed from raw to my Smugmug account and ordered the prints.

Beyond a certain print size (I think 10x15) the lab does its own interpolation of files before printing so any "other" work I might have done could have just gotten in the way of how they (and most labs I believe) do this kind of large printing.

They do, and I heard a few times that the algorithms in their printers are actually superior than the resizing tools in Photoshop.

But Adobe has introduced a new resize method in their newest versions, called Preserve Details 2.0, which uses AI to add the extra pixels with real information (collected from a database of real photos) On screen it seems to do a superb job when compared with older resizing methods, so I thoughts I give it a try.

It would have been interesting to print 2, one with the resizing done in PS, like I did, but also one where I would let the lab do their thing. The print wasn't cheap though so I guess I'll keep living wondering

Isacas wrote:

.... If you look very closely to at an oil painting, you will see the brush strokes. Big pictures are not meant to be inspected, but seen from a sensible distance....

Very much so. From a trip to The Courtauld Gallery last December:

Seurat, detail of 'Le Chahut'. SOOC jpg, hanging in The Courtauld Gallery

d3xmeister wrote:

Gregm61 wrote:

The 30x40 prints I have had made from the E-M1 were captured with the 12-40mm f2.8 and I did no kind of special re-sizing. Just loaded the jpegs processed from raw to my Smugmug account and ordered the prints.

Beyond a certain print size (I think 10x15) the lab does its own interpolation of files before printing so any "other" work I might have done could have just gotten in the way of how they (and most labs I believe) do this kind of large printing.

They do, and I heard a few times that the algorithms in their printers are actually superior than the resizing tools in Photoshop.

But Adobe has introduced a new resize method in their newest versions, called Preserve Details 2.0, which uses AI to add the extra pixels with real information (collected from a database of real photos) On screen it seems to do a superb job when compared with older resizing methods, so I thoughts I give it a try.

It would have been interesting to print 2, one with the resizing done in PS, like I did, but also one where I would let the lab do their thing. The print wasn't cheap though so I guess I'll keep living wondering

If you are really interested in a print comparison then just crop and make a couple of inexpensive 8x10 prints.

Nice... That's perfect for a large print.  Some gallery track lighting will light that up real nice.  Can you imagine if that was on acrylic or metal print?  The sharpness would be more that enough.

4 years ago, I was one of those who bought into the marketing sales that you can't get good large prints from MFT or crop camera, and only a DSLR with full frame or larger would be able to print large prints.   That was until I had a photo lab print up a poster size photo print.  And from that day on,  I knew that 12 or 16mp MFT or APSC cameras can churn out huge prints with amazing up close detail better than it looks on a high rest computer monitor.

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d3xmeister wrote:

Here’s the photo:

Nice photo. Where is this? I want to live in a city like this.

Looks like Budapest.