Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I remember a local (fashion, product, even vehicles) pro telling me that billboards are not especially demanding. They are viewed from great distance of course and the individual "dots" may be golf ball sized. On the other hand he values every bit of the 50mp from his Hasselblad for his work and it allows him to shoot with much more layout flexibility for shop window sized posters or high end magazine covers. For example a car shot in portrait which will allow any number of formats for the director. I have looked much more closely than intended (as photographers do) at 10 ft wide prints of fashion photos and can attest that pixels do matter. >From my M9 I am very content with the quality as large as I ever print IF I DO MY PART. On Apr 30, 2013 3:14 PM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i at verizon.net> wrote: > I remember an article that talked about the Billboard in Grand Central > Station in NYC. The billboard was inside, in the train station. 75 feet > wide, it was pretty spectacular. They picked images to show there from > amateurs and pros alike. Every week/month, there was a new image there. > > The particular one I remember was one of bunch of birds taking off from a > lake (?). Everyone up and fly away.... Caught by an amateur and his > Nikon/Canon/Contax/Leica/Pentax/Minolta/Miranda camera. A 35mm Negative > blown up to an enormous amount. > > The article went on to state that the negative was sharp enough to pull > off the stunt... remember, the wall was 75 feet wide, and the closest you > could get to it was like 30-40 feet ( straight up). That's a 600:1 linear > magnification... or .... roughly a half million to one area magnification. > > Don't need to have remarkable file sizes to pull it off..... just a good > sharp negative, some great printers, and enough distance from the > viewer..... > > > Frank Filippone > Red735i at verizon.net > > Yes, the PhaseOne files are huge. Worthy of billboard sized prints... > Thanks again, > Bob > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >