On Feb 11, 2005, at 6:34 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:
4 meters? Four METERS long???
Well, when the shop has a printer that goes about 1100mm wide, the first thing I'm going to do is to figure out the biggest roll-fed photo print I can possibly do :)
Bear in mind that the files are coming off Xpan format which makes it a pretty big enlargement ratio: about 46x linear or 2000x area. I think my "moon" panorama would go well at this size as there's no fine detail and it's pretty easy to get rid of the grain. But as I said yesterday, someone else would be paying for it!
I think the biggest panorama I've done would be about 2.5 meters at high
resolution. I've printed a couple using the full width of the Epson 7500
(24 inches or 60cm). I may get some roll paper for my 2200 at home to
try a couple but I think I'll only go to about 2 meters or so.
With my Epson 2100 I can theoretically get about 1 metre long onto the 329mm roll paper if I don't crop the already wide format. I've done two pans onto 210mm paper already, which I thought would be a cheaper way to try it out without screwing up with the big paper. I might be able to frame one of them this weekend.
I also need to hurry up and order the roll cutter attachment... cutting by hand is pretty easy but I like to minimise my handling of the prints as much as possible.
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
