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Re: [OM] How large a print can be made

Subject: Re: [OM] How large a print can be made
From: John Robison <omrobison@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 19:05:50 -0700 (PDT)
--- Joel Wilcox <jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 03:00 PM 5/12/2002 +1200, Ron Ashford you wrote:
> >Hi Zuikos
> >
> >I have received back some landscapes I shot on
> Velvia with various Zuiko 
> >primes on a tripod. What is the received opinion on
> how big these can be 
> >printed before grain (or whatever) starts to take
> its toll?
> 
> Ron,
> 
> I can print 11x14 no problem if the slide has been
> shot carefully in the 
> manner you describe.  I have not tried to go larger
> in scale than that 
> except once when printing an extraction (cropping)
> of a slide and it turned 
> out fine.  My workflow is all digital after the
> film:  scan the slide with 
> Polaroid SS4000, process a bit in Photoshop, and
> print with an Epson 
> 1160.  I could never get quite as good enlargements
> in a wet 
> darkroom.  Perhaps a pro could.
> 
> Joel W.
 Equipment limitations aside, if you stand back far
enough you could do a 20ft X 30ft print from 35mm.
(just trying to cause a commotion)<G>  John Robison

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