didn't notice as for the last million years my camera has been set to capture RAW. However, I've just accidentally shot a days commercial work with a 5dIII set to jpg 1920 px wide - the files are about 600kbs
Can I wing it and upsize? The shots are destined for an A4 brochure. Any suggestions on the best upscaling practice, or shall I just admit it and reshoot...?
I have done similar things with camera settings I don't change often at all, since it's not something I ever really change I never really check it. I should be more disciplined in resetting everything to a standard setting before the camera goes in the bag.
DavidWEGS wrote:
Oh, and GF (genuine fractals) is solid software for uprezing, but I would not be attempting to get a 240px per inch level from them.
Yeah upresing seems to swing in roundabouts, do you print a 180dpi or upres to 300dpi in software?
You will probably be OK as long as you don't have a lot of tiny details in those pictures. I doubt uprezzing will improve anything much but if you do, I would just do it in Photoshop (yes I have tried GF and Alien Skin Blow Up). If done properly, Photoshop CS Bicubic Smoother (followed by proper output sharpening) can be just as good if not better than those third party unless you don't have time to waste and just want a quick solution.
It really depends on the use ... for a really important client who wants serious detail, I'd say it's too low. However, requirements vary and only you will know.
Depending on the quality of the brochure printing you will probably be fine, it's probably nothing like the quality of photo paper or fancy high end art mags.
8x10 and smaller and you'll likely be fine. Web stuff, fine for sure. But, prepare yourself for the question of "I thought these would be larger files..."
A4 print single-page should be fine, if your focus is accurate. But if they want to span the photo to two A4 pages, then the problem will be visible to average people.
Genuine Fractals (Perfect Resize or whatever they call it).
Import into this program, uprez, and export as TIFF and you should be able to increase the file size considerably. It gets pretty hairy if you're doing more than 2X resolution though and they want a ton of detail. If you're photo is super-sharp you can get away with it, but the IQ starts to degrade nonetheless.
I would re-shoot or at least bring up the issue. If they
were my clients I can guarantee they would be on the phone seconds after the printer would not guarantee the job due to lower than wanted file size. Hard to get out of that position unless you are upfront to begin with.
Mark_L wrote:
I have done similar things with camera settings I don't change often at all, since it's not something I ever really change I never really check it. I should be more disciplined in resetting everything to a standard setting before the camera goes in the bag.
Yeah upresing seems to swing in roundabouts, do you print a 180dpi or upres to 300dpi in software?
As an aside… I read some of the other replies and many bring up the idea that you are at a "low res". I would remind everyone that when I started using Digital, this was the "normal" size of a file. 1.2mp was the starting point as I recall.
When Canon came along with the D30 at 3mp!, everyone said things like finally, the ultimate resolution… how could anyone want more than this?
Haha, and now here we are asking if we can get away with our images at 1920px for an A4.
Someone did make a valid point of a printer denying the job if it does not meet spec. Those specs can be 300ppi in a lot of cases. A re-shoot might be the smartest choice here.
Dunno if Canon added this to the 5D3 or not but this is one area where I think Nikon knocked it out of the park... you can save your camera's configuration to your card. I have two CF and SD cards that I use exclusively to store my "master configurations" ... one is my WEDDING CONFIG and one is my PERSONAL CONFIG ... just pop the card in, click LOAD SETTINGS and the camera is returned to exactly they way I like it.
Honestly use the "PERSONAL SETTINGS" infrequently... for a time I couldn't ever remember how to get the camera off back button focusing and my wife and people I'd had the camera to would end up with OOF shots.. so I made the personal card with the BBF disabled :P
Oh and you don't HAVE to have cards exclusively for this purpose... but I had a 1GB SD and a 512MB CF... certainly not going to use those for photos with 12 or 36mp cameras
