How BIG Can You PRINT Your Photos? (iPhone vs APS-C vs Medium Format)
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- There’s nothing better than printing out a big photo, but how big can you go? Do you need loads of megapixels or a special camera? We look at big prints made on a variety of cameras, from an iPhone all the way to a medium format camera.
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I have a 40x60 hanging in the entrance to my restaurant that I took in early 2000’s with a 6mp D100 in jpg mode. And still looks great.
Evidence...wanna see Photo.
@@Stop_Elitists_Wars got to figure out how to post a photo. We printed this in 2003 before enlarging software was out too!
Do you have it on Instagram or Facebook. I'd like to see the massive print as well lol
Great message Adam. I love having prints of my images but need more walls! One of my favourites is a C-type print 3 feet wide taken with a APS-C camera. Even close up it has detail. I now have a full frame camera and there is more detail on screen but I am not so sure it makes such a big difference in print. The main advantage is being able to capture images that the cropped sensor would struggle with. Technology moves on and the likes of the Fuji XT-4 show that cropped sensors can produce stunning work. Your phone shot illustrates that megapixels are only one part of the jigsaw; sensor size does make a difference. That said, I still think that having 'good glass' is THE most important gear factor. The photographer is, of course, THE most important part of making good images! Thanks for another good video, and stay safe.
THANK YOU! I have been thinking about that so much, so important going into pro photography and thinking about gear.
I’ve shot with an iPhone 4 and b,own it up to D size for personal use, and I’ve been quite happy with the output, and with phone technology, it’s only gotten better. You do bring up a great point, and that is, that everything has to be perfect... lighting, composition, and the right subject matter will make or break your ability to blow it up. This is a truth that holds true regardless of what you shoot with. Thanks for another great video.
I mainly do drone photography, but I also use a DSLR. I love all the tips and reasoning behind them.
Same here, first thing I do is look closely at the details to see how they have come out. We always have our phones so if that’s the shot you got, better than not shot.
Great content Adam your videos keep me going through these difficult times. Keep up the great work.
Even viewing that large print on a big computer monitor, I feel transported into that scene.
You just can't beat a large print, they just have that wow factor! Especially with good images like these.
Next time you want to fix a photo you might want to try using a 6' wide roller with a medium hardness. That should help remove the creases as you smooth it down. Great comparisons, thanks for all of the great information as usual.
Thank you . Questions ...when you took the image on the iPhone did you capture raw data . There are some outstanding applications such as Halide to take the shot and others too
Then when you have a raw capture by the phone include in your workflow Topaz Sharpen Ai . I for one would be interested to see a big phone print with the image having been captured with the one of the top image capture apps capturing the raw data then processed as said . As things stand because I don’t know how you actually captured the image or actually processed it I am unsure as to whether or not the image you show is as good as it could have been .
Thank you
You nailed it. I always go in for a closer peak as well. I just got commissioned for a couple 8 foot prints, so I ordered an A7R ii, wish I could have gotten an even bigger sensor.
Thanks for this Adam. Great insight. I absolutely love seeing my prints roll off the printer, especially when printed big...and even better when someone actually wants to buy it to put on their wall....😁👏👏
Great video. Is there a specific way we need to edit pictures for prints? I know you've mentioned that, but if there's a video where you explain the same, then that'd be great. After seeing your videos, I too printed some of my pictures as a photobook using a printing service to just see how it comes out. Though I liked the result, I think I need to do some specific edits/settings for the pictures before starting the print. I would like to give it another go after I understand what needs to be done.
Thank you for the video. What’s your go to export settings to print?
Really good vlog as always Adam. Some interesting points, totally agree I also like to get in close and see the fine details. The roseberry topping image looks stunning especially at that size. 👍
Just the video I needed. This is quality
Cheers mate
Well done, Adam. I love the enthusiasm that you put into your craft and your videos.
I have had good success with some fairly large metal prints for landscape images.
For the truly giant images, what are your thoughts about upsampling (or not) before shipping the image off to the lab?
Great video Adam. great points and advice..Awesome huge print.
Thanks for the info on printing large prints Adam. A3 is big enough for me as I live in a small cottage!!
Great video Adam! A video of how you got it ready for print might take some of the the worry away from printing large.
I'm with you all they way, love the attention to detail , and my new printers on order too, this is really exciting stuff .I like the very idea of using the 100mp Fuji to extract every last drop of dealt out of an image , I used to use a canon 20d and a 500f4 is and have prints done on Cibachrome so to see this is Just Brilliant .
The final image is beautiful! What do you suggest I use to mount my images on? Thank you!
It's not just the megapixel you've got. It really comes down to the quality of the lens you have stuck on the front of your camera. You could have a 100MP but if your lens can't handle that many MP's, then the pics will turn out not so great. It really comes down to the quality of the lens, then the number of megapixels you have to record that info, which gives you the great pics. Plus, other factors to do with the chip design, etc. But, the lens quality is the paramount aspect.
Great as ever Adam! Thank you, what size print was the final example please?
60” x 48”
Adam, well explained ...
Thank you
Great video thank you!
I was surfing CZcams and came across this video so I wanted to check it out. I shoot a Fujifilm X-T1 converted to deep B&W infrared and Fujifilm X-T2's. One thing I never hear anyone talk about is going through an interpolation software for big prints. The Fujifilm X-T1 is 16.3 megapixils and I have used ON1 Resize and have a 24"x36" (610mm x 910mm) hanging on the wall with no visible pixelation/grain at all, even a nose length distance. Also, with my X-T2 (24mp), I have several 30"x40" (762mm x 1016mm) with the same results. I typically resize to 300 ppi too. I have 7 large prints hanging on my walls and the smallest ones being 20"x30" (508mm x 762mm) with no issues. Have you ever tried this and/or do you have any thoughts on this technique?
I have ! between 2 very close sensor sizes its largely academic at best because the sensor on the Xt2 actually has more noise at any given ISO which will contribute to the similarities, I actually preferred the Xt1's rendition and the files were cleaner. It's not as cut and dry as this fellow makes out AND he made one big jump which are not even comparable to be honest. it should have been APS-c -APS-c or full frame to frame.
Hey i liked your prints video, would you like to think of making video about tripods for landscape photographers?
Wow Adam, now that’s a print. And your next step is to print a wallpaper and do an entire wall.
Thanks for sharing again your wonderful photos Adam.
Stay safe
Hello sir, very good morning,
I want to print on duratrance what can i do and how i make the file?
Thank for a great video. Can I ask how you hung the photos on the brick.
Velcro.
Happy New year, Adam.
Thanks. and to you too.
I love your honesty, thank you
Very nice video - could you tell me what was the file settings (size of file and BPI) you sent to the printer company. Thanks
1.5GB TIFF. 300dpi. Most labs will provide file requirements.
In the end every format has an optimum size. It was true in 35mm and medium format film days, and it's true of digital sensors. A photo is no worse because it doesn't translate into a image several feet across. A beautifully framed and matted shot 15" wide that stands up to nose end resolution, in its proper setting, is still a great thing to have.
I have a canon 5D Mark IV as my main Camara, but I love the flexibility of my iPhone 12 Pro Max as the sensor is just so good.
Thanks for another really great video and subject matter - and love the Lake District shot. (and also using PrintSpace? Excellent! Can be a little pricey, but it's worth every penny)
I generally take a mix of shots - camera and phone (for geo-coords). 100% agreement on selling vs own wall - and certainly vs online stuff.
Something almost magical with the unveiling of a max-resolution, large-format print where the mounting and paper-types rule.
I had a print made to couple of images, on canvas prints by giving the print shop online a Tiff file and that was from a 21megapixel Canon 5D2. These where cityscapes prints and the quality of the print is very good. The sizes are 24x36 inches. Canvas prints keep their shape and look good if done properly in my opinion. You don't need anything special once it is stretched and mounted and they can be cleaned with a damp cloth once in a while, the prints that I have are about 5 years since they where printed and still they look very new.
Loved this video Adam! I'm definitely looking forward to printing some of my aps-c images. Just got to get over the fear of thinking my images will come back looking horrendous lol
I had same fear Sean and found that Loxley Colour will do some test prints based on what you send them AND offer a colour correction service free so you can see how close your colours are to the originals (providing you have downloaded the colour profiles). I've been happy with them so far and they even reprinted one for me free when the exposure seemed out of step with that mine looked like (and I had made an allowance for backlighting on the screen).
Thanks, interesting to hear about other printing methods. I won’t use that particular one myself as digital was always my ticket to get away from gelatine, unless there is a C type paper that doesn’t use it.
Have you tested upscaling the iphone 13 proraw DNGs for larger prints?
Nice Video. What kind of Cannon Printer are you using and would this be a good printer to use to sale Large Prints on? Thanks
I'm using the Canon Pro 1000
I darkroom black and white
print up to 20x16 inches from a Pentax 67 camera.
As you mention in your latest vlog about producing a book I am planning on creating a book for a long ongoing project my question to you is this I struggle with creative writing and I thought you might be able to help me with some advice
I've always loved going to galleries and looking at various prints but the first time I saw metal prints, I was literally blown away at the saturation and clarity. It made photos come alive. It was if I was looking at my photo on a beautiful 8K TV.
The cost is definitely higher but worth it IMHO.
8k tv?! It's a metal print, reflecting light. Imo, way more pleasant than an emitting digital light source .
@@mdbedelsohn4307 yeah it's obviously not the same. The point I was making is that it's much more detailed imho
@@gregsilverI'm just over-reacting about all the digitalization of our world, like the real stuff, the print. That's the real power of photography (and paintings), that they can convey their message without the need of a machine (video, screen, etc).
@@mdbedelsohn4307 agree 100%
@@gregsilver even considering to only offer print to the clients! Like in the good old days. ,😂
Going to be difficult getting by with that though in our generation. On the other hand, might be a way to differentiate...
Hello Adam, Yes it dose inspire me, it just so down that for 8 months out of the last 12 months I have been shielding. Now I have a cancer and wighting for something to go right. Still love your videos.
I like the windows open over your shoulders. I really don't understand why so many youtubers prefers dark backgrounds. So, I'm glad that the lights come in and shine. Ciao from Sicily
I don’t think it’s that they prefer it dark, it’s more to do with exposing the shot correctly. it’s difficult to do unless you have very powerful video lights. It got dark later in this video though so I shut the blinds to stop reflections.
@@Firstmanphotography ah ok, I understand. Thanks
Kodak recommended proper viewing distance of 14" for a 4X6" print.
This equate to 2X the hypotenuse, and is a good guide for all print sizes.
Spot on Rick, who puts their face against the print apart from pixel peepers and second rate camera club judges.
@@iaincphotography6051 *OUCH!* Didn’t do too well in a camera club comp?
😂💀
@@wtfdidijustwatch5053 Why what did you do wrong?
@@iaincphotography6051 it was a question to you. Hence the “?” at the end.
@@wtfdidijustwatch5053 I know, just messing lol. I don't do competitions these days. My work has been under scrutiny by better qualified people than your average club judge. Semi-retired these days, I jumped through hoops with the BIPP & the Guild of Photographers. These days I do what I do for myself apart from being roped in with studio work at times and abstract workshops. Club judges (not all) curtail creativity and stifle talent. A good indicator is the rule of thirds, overused and a scruffy tool of composition but it seems to be the only one that exists for the most part on youtube. Anyway whatever it is you photograph, have fun and enjoy it.
Best print ever. nice work. Just happy to see it!
Ha. thanks. that’s definitely true of all the prints I have made.
@@Firstmanphotography I have the feeling too, every time a got a print! But never done this size. Just amazing.
Great video, would love to see canon m50 mark 2 used to take very large print photos haven’t seen a video for that.
I scrolled down to see if anyone asked about the telescoping ladder you were using to put the old large photo up. Maybe I'm the first to ask where you got that. I think I need one of those!
It’s the XTend pro series s2 3.8 meters. Not the cheapest but wanted something sturdy.....even for someone my size it’s solid as a rock and I feel very confident on it.
There was very nearly a close up of the Fender stratocaster, about time you gave us a riff or two, through that Vox amp that's on the floor, go on you know you want to! Impressive large print!
Ha. Now is the time isn’t it, whilst I’m not travelling anywhere.
Top print love that image really to my taste. Great info to thank you. 👍
What size did you print the rainbow image at?
I really enjoy the videos you have been doing with the Fuji GFX100, thank you. I also enjoy the images you create with the Canon's. I enjoy all of your content very much, thank you.
Thanks Harry. Really appreciate it.
Interesting topic.
Love the big print you can definitely see the detail in it.
I have an A3 printer and love printing my images.
Definitely much better looking at a print you have made it's very satisfying.
Thanks
Thank you
VASTphotos in the US. make prints that are over 6500 megapixels ... using the camera shooting in a grid so each pic is just that area then stiched together... insane zooming in on the site... just keeps going and going ..... and going. They have huge 100" wide and larger prints. Their cityscapes can be zoomed in so close that you cam tell peoples eye colour in apt's. Pretty crazy.
My question can this be done with a 24mp APSC for a 60x40 inch and a grid of say 6 pics instead of like 50 with a medium format like they do?
Great video
Well !! I just did it, Not sure if it was you or Adam Gibbs or Theoria Apophasis that tempted me.... BUT I am the Happy new proud owner of the Fuji GFX 100 and the G 110 F/2 and the 32-64 zoom lens and I got an adaptor (with Glass in it) so I can use all my Nikon F/ mount Primes with no Vignetting so it claims... I get the next week Now All I need is to Move to the UK and get some of that scenery you got
How many dpi does your printer need to have to print the larger image you showed?
Light room now has a feature called enhanced and not a lot of people know about it. It would be great if you did a video on that as I have used it and it's really good. I've done it for some really big prints... Essentially I've done some prints on caravans and Billboards by using this feature it quadruple megapixels and even some of the new cameras do this as well
I’m trying to do a print for a trailer.
Will Lightroom enhance my photos so it’s not pixelated at all?
Can you get better image quality in a massive print from a crop sensor camera with just a kit lens, if you do multiple images to make up one image. So say you have a scene and you take it by doing say 3 rows of 4 images on top of each other and stitch them together in editing software, so instead of one image of the scene 6000x4000 pixels, you will have an image 24000x12000 pixels (obviously there will be less pixels with the overlapped areas). Also with phones, my phone has a panoramic mode on the camera, so if I hold it vertical and scan around I get massive pixels. I think I got one once at 20000x4000.
I have a Oceanside photo of the us west coast in Northern California that was taken on an iPhone 6, that is 11”x14”, and actually looks great.
I agree that in certain circumstances phone photos can look great up to a certain size. Though I really do not care for phone camera quality.
have you though of using a Gigapan mount to make a very detailed photo that can be printed at whatever size you want.
Definitely something I'm looking at. Not too keen for the extra bulk though.
@@Firstmanphotography I was looking at it to film the murals on the sides of buildings in my area, the ability to get every true detail, down to the plants growing on the side of the building. Bulk wouldn't be an issue, I would think that your going to use it on a subject matter that you have done enough research on. Not something I would take on hike. Always looking for an excuse to get out of my normal routine. Additionally, doing a landscape where I can print large and get close to the print as I would to a 4 by 6, and still see the details. Makes the large print even more enjoyable, far and close, heck even pulling details for family and friends to look for, almost like "where's Waldo".
Was the big image Roseberry Topping, also what was the image size Adam (which looked great by the way)?
Thanks....t’s a 60” x 48” print.
Love the vid, Can you take us through dpi, and what the best option are as to what format 1 saves the images in for print houses? Or maybe link the vid to this comment if youve touched on those topics already
What type of paper is that?
What printer have you got?
Kitty at 1:30 🥰🥰🥰. Great video with answers to questions I had today! Thanks!
Sparky. He’s a little savage although pretty loveable.
Not a lot of people have spoken about sensor size, an aspect that has a LOT to do
With image quality when blowing up.
nice job
Hi, I liked your mushy print of the rainbow scene. I love art but I can't deliver. I can take photographs (ish). To me the best images have a creative impact rather than the pursuit of pixel sharpness. I love photographs but I love the creative artistic effects that are emotive. I used to print film, and pursuing large grain effects was my favourite. Grain like golf balls. Take a portrait using a small proprtion of the negative, then projecting th negative image on to the paper on the floor! Inrease contrast in film and development. Dreamy artistic portrait created. Actually taking out the accuity of lens, camera and format. Sacrilege but creatively fun, and not expensive. Cheers enjoying your chanel immensely
Viewing distance is all. Was asked by my employer at the time to produce an image to be used on the wall of a newly constructed restaurant. The challenge was it was to cover 12m x 3m! Huge! While people could be stood right next to it, the image was set up to be viewed from a distance of over a couple of metres to right across the restaurant. It was taken an autumn day with a 4am start and a 100 mile drive to capture a 9 image pano taken from several km away. The location - The Emley Moor tv tower taken from the edge of the Sculpture park. Was a 2GByte TIFF file. Cost them around £7k to print! Not my best ever image but certainly one to remember.
I printed a 48”x72” from a Nikon D810 and it’s beautiful even up close.
Lovely comparison.
In my opinion, the most issues with phone pictures is not necessarily the sensor size. They are tiny, yes. But the image processing is just garbage.
My Lumia 1020 from 7 years back took photos on it's 42MP Sensor that rival the shots from my current iPhone 11 because the image processing just mushes all the details together "iphone style".
There are obviously limitations with details but I am so often disappointed with darker colors or blacks on good lit photos because everything is just getting "smoothed" and sharpened so it becoms this grainy puddle of semi-details.
My old phone took pictures that were "better" because it did not try to smash all the details together and would present you a more or less unsmoothened image - albeit bein color processed obviously.
Keep up the nice work.
Metal prints, although I'm not sure that you can get them that big, are incredible. They look like a transparency would on a light box.
Totally agree. I sell my water drop images in 1 metre x 1 metre on metal and they always feel very special. Very durable too.
Curious, why such a large showcase print does not have some personal graphics in the negative spaces - something to see, view and identify you, as people enter your domain, your World of the recording studio.
If youd have pin pricked the blisters that formed the creases so the air could get out you could have all but eliminated those creases...ive done it for years, used to watch my dad do it back in the day when he used wallpapered the house !..
Ah thanks. good tip. might have to get back up the ladders.
Adam, I hear what you say (at about 8:40) stating that you wouldn't feel comfortable charging hundreds of pounds for a print that was not pin sharp ( I'm paraphrasing). To a certain extent, I agree with you. We all love a high quality pin sharp image. However, with my own images, for the most part, I'll ensure they are pin sharp front to back if they need be. Then, in post, I'll add my own artistic license to it. The main subject area or the focus of the image will remain pin sharp but then I'll purposefully slightly blur other components of the image to give it a painterly effect. If a viewer decides to pixel peep one of my images and sees that part of it is pin sharp and other parts are not, will my work be devalued because it is not pin sharp front to back ? I love your work and thanks for sharing.
You should get Superdry to sponsor your channel, I bought that hoodie (or very similar) because it looks so comfy in the videos 😂
Ha. So far clothing brands have steered well clear of me. this is wise, fashion is not my thing and I wear a small selection of clothes until they are full of holes and usually covered in paint. I’ve always been like this but now I can claim it’s because it’s the more sustainable and environmentally friendly approach to clothes.
I'd love to go that big with a print but the wife would probably have words when I hung it lol. I've found some tables on the web that give you guidance on how big you can print for particular resolutions and what the picture quality will be. I'd agree though print smaller to start with and research the resizing function for whatever Post Processing software you use.
I need zero
I use large format - has equivalent to probably 1 gigapixel for resolution, now print that large! :D
Excellent video, Adam. Photography is really all about the print and I hope this inspires more people to print images. Clearly, printing phone images at A2 is pushing the boat out too far but A4 produces very good results (people have achieved RPS distinctions with phone prints around that size and the RPS are very pernickity where print quality is concerned). I was interested in your method of mounting the prints and affixing them to the wall - perhaps a detailed video on the procedure might be worth considering?
Yeah I skipped over that but I do find it interesting. There’s quite a few different materials you can use to mount the image and it’s a balance of cost and quality. MDF is a great option but is expensive. Foamboard is the cheapest and also feels cheap. I went with the nice balance of using 5mm foamex. I use Velcro to put it up, good for the print as you can easily move and adjust but can pull the paint off the wall.
One thing for example 20 megapixels on a crop camera is not the same on a larger sensor camera. This is because smaller sensor have noise. DXO PhotoLab and DXO PureRaw best noise reduction and Lightroom's new noise reduction is second and that's also very good. One thing DXO Deep PRIME does restore loss colors due to high ISO.
Put that cellphone pic through onone resize or other highend resize software and it will be cracking at large size.
I use Photoshop to resize my larger prints. Interestingly the iPhone image is probably at 100% and not enlarged at all. It is 12 megapixels at 240dpi, it’s on A2 paper which is bigger than that but with the border, without doing the maths, is around 100%.
Ever think of going to a large format film camera like Ben Horne does? I would think the detail would be even more impressive.
You should try out the iPhone 12 Pro Max with ProRAW - much more details 👌🙂
I thought you were going to mention the photo printing Co you used for this photo.
I did. There’s also a link in the description.
@@Firstmanphotography Tnx I suppose I need to get my eyes checked or give them a break cause I read the description prior to messaging you and I couldn’t see it. Even after you pointed out I had difficulties finding it. Somehow my brain wasn’t processing correctly what my eyes were reading. Perhaps my brain was looking out for smt else to register the printing co info. It’s all good and Tnx once again.
Hello. I am from India. I would like to have your honest opinion about getting started in photo printing business, catering to mainly landscape and fine art photographers or even nature photographers. What would you advise me? Would it be profitable? What equipment and investment would go into the business when starting?
Very interesting. I have some shots that are to be printed and applied to the sides and rear of a trailer (mobile office). I guess it will look like a mobile billboard, with no definition when close up but, as you said, the viewing distance is important and the intended viewing distance for the trailer is probably no closer than three metres.
I’d guess the digital medium format is overkill, even for a print that size. A 24megapixel full frame sensor can likely produce an image that size that would even survive close quarters scrutiny... with a few caveats: shooting iso 100, and not a heavy amount of pushing in Lightroom which can introduce tons of noise. I’ve done a few BIG prints to hang up
Short answer: That only depends on the viewers distance to the printed picture. Everything more than two times the diagonal of the print looks good enough, if you have a minimum resolution of 100 dpi.
Wonderful print Adam! I may have to print a couple of my images just to see... Thanks!
You don’t have high enough walls to hide that mess. Ha unless it’s grandma with pop bottle glasses.
Pro labs have been doing prints digitally onto photo paper for probably 20 plus years already.
Very good point, but rather general. What are you guidelines? What resolution do u use when u print your photos: 260, 300 or 360? Or higher? How many megapixels is that large photo (BTW, that's a great photo!)?
Can medium RAW format photos print large?
Interesting video. You still have an audio sync problem.
Been having major problems with video editing software. This video was a misery to edit.