Jostein what's the size in MM (or inches) of A2/A3? Don
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jostein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 3:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: A3 prints from *istD > > > Gang, > > A while ago, I questioned whether files from *istD would suffice for > A3 enlargement. I put a full size version of this image online: > > http://www.oksne.net/paw/wintermarsh.html > > The image is so full of minute detail that I had my doubts it could be > blown up larger than A4. > > Cotty and Paul Stenquist set out to prove me wrong. A couple of days > later I received a print from Paul made on an Epson 2200 onto a > radiant white watercolour paper. The quality was excellent, even to my > prejudice mind. Cotty had printed on glossy paper with his Canon (I > forget the model), and thus the two prints were hard to compare for > differences among the printers. However, the two results clearly > showed that A3 enlargements are well within reach with a 6 Mpix > camera. > > So I got curious. I asked a pro-lab in Oslo to go as large as _they_ > considered reasonable quality, and told them the file was from a 6 > Mpix DSLR. They print on a Epson Pro 9600. What I got back was an A2 > enlargement. At this size, it was easy to spot the blurring of details > less than 3 pixels across. The Pentax way of anti-aliasing made them > blend together. There were no artificial coloring or moire, though. > Another gripe was that contrast got a bit out of hand, so that dark > detail became jagged edges or little squares, 2-3 pixels across. The > ghosts of Nyquist came out and said boo... Still around the > theoretical limit, I suppose. > > BUT! from a 50-60 cm viewing distance, even the A2 is passable for > hanging on a wall. By my standards, of course. Ymmv, my expectations > were that this was a no-go. > > I must say I'm puzzled, astonished and impressed with the result, and > relieved to have been proven wrong in my suspicions. > > So now I'm seriously considering an A3 printer...:-) > > Jostein >
