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02/18/2010 04:25:39 PM · #1 |
| Hey everyone, I just bought the 5d mark II and i'm really excited to do some shoots with it! I just had a question, I know the 21 megapixels is not a necessity unless i'm planning on blowing up a HUGE poster size, but if i switch to sRAW1 (9.9 megapixels) will it show a lack in image quality when printed as an 8x10, or will there be no difference in sharpness between 21 megapixels and 10 megapixels at that size? thanks |
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02/18/2010 04:28:38 PM · #2 |
8x10 should be OK on a good stochastic (ink jet) printer. But you will lose the ability to crop to any significant degree and still get a printable image.
Make sure your image editing software supports sRAW. |
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02/18/2010 04:33:42 PM · #3 |
| I always shoot at full resoultion of my camera. Memory cards are cheap and so are harddrives.Always start with the best possible file. |
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02/18/2010 04:34:51 PM · #4 |
You shouldn't see any difference. The sRAW file without cropping will get you an 8x12 out of the camera so you don't have to resize to get the print size you want. The benefit of shooting in the larger RAW format is you can crop more without having to resize later to fit your print size. Of course this is a moot point if you plan to do little or no cropping.
Message edited by author 2010-02-18 16:35:36.
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02/18/2010 06:36:48 PM · #5 |
Shooting at sRAW is a bit like putting a gas restrictor on a Ferrari, kinda defeats the purpose of buying one in the first place. And you never know when you might need to put the photographic pedal to the metal.
But if you are strapped for disk space it is a significant consideration. It will cut per picture disk storage to less than half.
The real space killer for me used to be post processing in Photoshop(PS). Creating a post processed master file from PS takes up huge amounts of space... the more post processing I did the larger the files and sometimes I have multiple versions of a file. That is how I used up most of my disk space.
However, now I do the bulk of my post processing in Lightroom II(LRII). It is faster, easier uses almost no additional disk space per picture and can do 98% of what I did in PS. LRII stores all the PP in tiny sidecar files that barely adds a blip of disk storage.
That makes all the difference in the world. I use PS only when I need to.
Now I can capture all images at full resolution and PP to my heart's content. And scaling down images to the print sizes desired results in higher tonal quality and reduced digitization, especially with highly cropped pictures.
But then my goal is producing fine art images and that requires a higher level of quality, so larger density images is necessary. :)
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02/18/2010 07:05:03 PM · #6 |
| awesome guys thank you so much! I will definitely be shooting as large as possible. I have plenty of room on my external hard drives and memory cards so it would be dumb not to!! thank you all :] |
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