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p.1 #1 · Biggest print done with the canon 5d

Hello everyone!

i need some help! I was wondering if anyone has printed 21ft with the 5D before?
I just want to know if it's capable of doing that or do i need a better camera?

Oct 02, 2008 at 01:20 PM

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p.1 #2 · Biggest print done with the canon 5d

Twenty-one feet??

Hell no. Well----not if you expect a print with some semblance of quality. I'v printed a 24x48 with a single frame 5D that was fine, but to my eye, a well-composed and properly exposed (portrait) file with the 5D is limited to about a 24x30. It does depend on the subject matter----as I've found that with landscape images (it's in the details!) that the 5D is very limiting.

Stitched images will give you the resolution you need. (and, No----I don't believe in "viewing distances" as I have found when I print large, people do get close to check the details. A billboard or similar (far away and you can't exactly climb up to examine) is the exception!

Oct 02, 2008 at 02:03 PM

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p.1 #3 · Biggest print done with the canon 5d

Anyone printing that big is printing a billboard anyway...

Oct 02, 2008 at 02:05 PM

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p.1 #4 · Biggest print done with the canon 5d

I have a billboard up right now with a 5D.

Oct 02, 2008 at 03:19 PM

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p.1 #5 · Biggest print done with the canon 5d

Viewing distance is everything! You can up rez to Gb to eliminate pixelating.

Oct 02, 2008 at 04:09 PM

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p.1 #6 · Biggest print done with the canon 5d

I've seen large Canon D30 images. I would check with your service bureau and go from there.

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Oct 02, 2008 at 06:10 PM

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p.1 #7 · Biggest print done with the canon 5d

Billboards have been made from the original 1D, a 5D is more than up to the task.

Oct 02, 2008 at 06:22 PM

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p.1 #8 · Biggest print done with the canon 5d

you can do a billboard with a 6mp camera

Oct 03, 2008 at 08:03 AM

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p.1 #9 · Biggest print done with the canon 5d

Thanks for the reply. That's quite assuring to hear. Btw, what's the format to output if i want to print that big? I hear from my printing shops that .tiff is recommended.. Anyone has any comments?

Oct 03, 2008 at 09:05 AM

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p.1 #10 · Biggest print done with the canon 5d

A tiff that big will need to be handed to them on a hard drive!

Oct 03, 2008 at 10:02 AM

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p.1 #11 · Biggest print done with the canon 5d

Beni wrote:
A tiff that big will need to be handed to them on a hard drive!

Actually to go that big, they should up-rez it with their RIP. Will probably do a better job.

If it is for a billboard, no need to up-rez that much ... a DPI of around 20-40 will probably look pretty good when viewed from the road. (never saw if that's what the OP was trying to do).

If it isn't for a billboard ... good luck. Printing a 5D file this large won't look very good no matter what you do unless you are pretty far away.

Oct 03, 2008 at 05:23 PM

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p.1 #12 · Biggest print done with the canon 5d

Thirty years ago, Kodak used to create images from 35mm Kodachrome for, I believe, a wall of Grand Central Station. They were several times larger in area than a standard billboard.

Oct 04, 2008 at 03:13 PM

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p.1 #13 · Biggest print done with the canon 5d

RDKirk wrote:
Thirty years ago, Kodak used to create images from 35mm Kodachrome for, I believe, a wall of Grand Central Station. They were several times larger in area than a standard billboard.

From 1959 to 1977, the images used were from large format cameras. The first one from 35mm was from a Kodachrome II transparency by Ernst Haas taken with a Leica. Apparently several other 35mm images were used following, including images from films other than Kodachrome.

Pretty amazing, considering the image was 18'x60' ... a 516x enlargement from the 35mm slide. It would be curious at to how a current DSLR would stack up. Considering that current DSLR's can supposedly resolve better than silver halide emulsions, it may very well work. We'll never know since its been nearly 20 years since the last one.

Here's an interesting link for any that are curious...

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/coloramas/

Oct 05, 2008 at 02:44 AM

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p.1 #14 · Biggest print done with the canon 5d

From my understanding and experience (not from printing myself but from seeing)...uprez'ing software can take 6-8mp and make them huge with very good detail. Just have to make sure the person/company doing it is good at what they do. 5D can print large if my 20D can do 20x30 giclees that were shot in jpg.

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Oct 05, 2008 at 02:55 AM

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p.1 #15 · Biggest print done with the canon 5d

Where do i start.I do this often for fine art wallpaper.Ive printed an image for 8ft wide by 8ft high wall .Ive printed an image 17ft long.Its a question of distance.Its a bit pixy at 3 ft ,Its stunning at 10ft.You need to divide up the image into equal parts and print them separately.I would divide up an 8ft image into 4 equal parts,just under the printer width.Cut edges and splice togeather on the wall.

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Oct 08, 2008 at 10:24 AM

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p.1 #16 · Biggest print done with the canon 5d

Oh yes i forgot,the images were taked on a 5D.

Oct 08, 2008 at 10:26 AM

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p.1 #17 · Biggest print done with the canon 5d

drumma, get ahold of Adobe Illustrator, I think CS2 or CS3... Save your 5D picture at 300dpi and full resolution... Create a new Illustrator document, import your photo onto the document, and use the "Live Trace" feature... for settings, choose color, and 256 colors... You'll need a powerful machine to do this... Once it's done, you now have a vectorized version of your photo, that you can resize up to whatever size you need and you won't have to worry about things like noise, softness and blur, or sharpening. It will turn out MUCH better than trying to continually up-rez a photo to the size you need.

Oct 08, 2008 at 04:24 PM

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p.1 #18 · Biggest print done with the canon 5d

Thanks guys for the help!

Oct 10, 2008 at 06:38 AM

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p.1 #19 · Biggest print done with the canon 5d

Hmm... looks interesting, maybe I should blow up a shot for a wall in the appartment

Oct 10, 2008 at 12:05 PM


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