This afternoon I finally had the opportunity to make a large print from a 5Ds R image. Until now I\'ve only made crops from larger images or else printed small.
The image is a landscape photograph that I made back in July. Due to slightly tricky lighting — shaded foreground areas but distant clouds in full sun, I exposed for the highlights with the expectation that I would have to push that shadowed areas in post (with exposure, black, and shadows faders), lower the highlights fader to control the brightness of the clouds, and increase contrast to compensate for what amounts to compression. I used the 70-200mm f/2.8 L II.
I\'ll just say that the 5DsR files perform up to my expectations in the print. The test print is a 4:3 aspect ratio image that was slightly cropped, and I printed it at 22.5\" x 30\". No surprise — resolution is excellent, as it should be. It will make a very sharp 30\" x 40\" print, and I\'m pretty certain that I can go larger with good quality, too. The pushed shadows look fine.
Dan
Here is a small jpg of the specific image — and of course the jpg doesn\'t demonstrate a thing about the image quality of the print. ;-)
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(One more thing. If anyone wants to see what the print looks like and is in the San Francisco Bay Area, I\'ll probably bring it to this week\'s meeting of the San Francisco Photography Meetup Group on Wednesday evening. (http://www.meetup.com/photo-437/)
Aug 02, 2015 at 10:41 PM
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