Printed Photos of your car in BIG sizes delivered to you.

[ZippyVR6 0]

A friend of mine has started a bit of a sideline taking photos of Boats on the solent and offering the owners the print on a nice big pic. He has an A1 sized photo of the River Hamble in the sunset and it is brilliant.

 

I mentioned to him that some of the folks on here might be interested in having nice big juicy prints of their fave images.

 

He will do A4, A3, A1 and the prices dont seem to bad to me.

 

Starting at £20 and then £27 & £35, respectively.

 

Im getting one of me on Castle Coombe to see what the quality is like, so if its ok and there is enough interest then Ill start forwarding orders to him.

 

If you are interested, drop me a PM and we'll take it from there.

[Phil K 0]

Remember kids - it's all about resolution!

 

Sounds like a good offer though Rog 8)

 

Would be worth asking him if he can give you some guidelines for resolution V's print size

 

i.e. 1280x1024 = A3 (max)

 

Also worth remembering the term 'photo quality' is defined by looking at an image at arms length and seeing a realistic/un-pixilated picture...

 

Having run a digital print lab I'm well aware of the problems you can run into with print quality ;)

[dinkus 10]

Er, I'll move this out of the moderation queue then eh, Phil? :lol:

[ZippyVR6 0]

Cheers Phil. Hadn't thought of that, Ill mention it and get some minimum resolutution sizes for each size print.

 

But obviously the higher the resolution the better the final result would be.

[RADO.001 0]

sounds like a good idea.

[Phil K 0]

Er, I'll move this out of the moderation queue then eh, Phil? :lol:

 

Doh! I knew I was meaning to do something after I posted that :oops: :lol:

[Musicman 0]

Would be worth asking him if he can give you some guidelines for resolution V's print size

 

i.e. 1280x1024 = A3 (max)

 

Also worth remembering the term 'photo quality' is defined by looking at an image at arms length and seeing a realistic/un-pixilated picture...

 

I'd hazard the suggestion that 300 dpi is a good working value for better quality colour prints, 150 dpi to be the minimum for reasonable photographic quality.

 

Top end magazines like Vogue will work with 300 dpi continuous tone images for output on 2400 dpi equipment. 150 dpi input is more normal for newspapers, for example.

 

On that basis, at 150 dpi, the minimum resolutions you need for each paper size are

 

A4 (297 x 210mm): 1754 x 1240 px ~= 2.1 megapixels*

A3 (297 x 420 mm): 2480 x 1754 px ~= 4.3 megapixels

A2 (420 x 594 mm): 3508 x 2480 px ~= 8.6 megapixels

A1: (594 x 841 mm): 4967 x 3508 px ~= 17.4 megapixels

 

[* the rough equivalent size of a camera's advertised 'megapixel' rating]

 

There's maybe a bit of room for manoeuvre with the larger sizes as you're more likely to be viewing them from several feet away. If you were to drop to 120 dpi for A1.

 

3969 x 2806 px ~= 11.1 megapixels

[ZippyVR6 0]

:thumb right: Thanks Rob thats the sort of info I was looking for, So what you are saying is that most good cameraphones and regular Point and shoot digicams could be blown up to A4 without looking to grainy.

 

But remember folks, dont drop your cameras, think etch a sketch, you might jumble up your pixels.

[Musicman 0]

:thumb right: Thanks Rob thats the sort of info I was looking for, So what you are saying is that most good cameraphones and regular Point and shoot digicams could be blown up to A4 without looking to grainy.

 

At A4, 150 dpi will probably be on to the boundaries of acceptable. Personally, I'd be inclined to favour 200 dpi as a minimum, but I'm a bit fussy and your mileage may vary.

 

It's largely down to viewing distance. You're not likely to be looking at an A4 page from much further than 60 cm, quite probably closer, so you'll notice any pixillation in the image.

 

48 and 96 sheet posters (the big ones that you see in the street) can go as low as 30 dpi because you're looking at them from tens of metres away.

 

The other factor will be that the quality of the capture from a camera-phone or cheap digicam may not bear close examination because of the high levels of JPEG compression that they usually apply, which will reduce the apparent resolution of the image. Your eye is much more critical and will notice this kind of thing on a print more than you do on screen.

 

But remember folks, dont drop your cameras, think etch a sketch, you might jumble up your pixels.

 

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[KADVR6 0]

good idea.