Largest Print Size @ ISO3200?

THE TOUCHTHE TOUCH Registered Users Posts: 535 Major grins
edited June 29, 2006 in Sports
I photographed an Arena Football game and had to shoot at ISO3200 with a 20D. What's the largest size I should allow the costumers to print? I was thinking around 8x12 but could I go bigger? I'm okay with the grain to a certain point.

Since this is the Sports Shots Thread, I've included a sample! Were you expecting football!? :lol3

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How's this for ruining the moment!? :lol4

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  • CookieSCookieS Registered Users Posts: 854 Major grins
    edited June 28, 2006
    WOW, that is not bad noise for 3200 . very nice, what lens?
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited June 28, 2006
    This 10D ISO 1600 was done for fellow dgrinner and SmugMugger "marlinspike" and it came out great:

    http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/1025881/1/47567985/Medium

    Dont' be shy about going large. If you like, process the file and shoot it by me, I'll be happy to review it before you print it (regardless of where you print it...)

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    Andy

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  • THE TOUCHTHE TOUCH Registered Users Posts: 535 Major grins
    edited June 28, 2006
    CookieS wrote:
    WOW, that is not bad noise for 3200 . very nice, what lens?

    I'm with you...I was pretty shocked! The lens was the 100-400L.thumb.gif
    Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein :bash

    - Kevin
  • THE TOUCHTHE TOUCH Registered Users Posts: 535 Major grins
    edited June 28, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    This 10D ISO 1600 was done for fellow dgrinner and SmugMugger "marlinspike" and it came out great:

    http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/1025881/1/47567985/Medium

    Dont' be shy about going large. If you like, process the file and shoot it by me, I'll be happy to review it before you print it (regardless of where you print it...)

    wave.gif

    Wow - that's very nice of you Andy! I'll take you up on your offer. I'm not planning on printing, but I didn't want to allow large prints to costumers if they were going to be poor quality.

    The pics are in the following gallery -
    http://the-touch.smugmug.com/gallery/1605204/1

    How should I send you a sample? Can you pull it from the gallery?

    Thank you Andy!
    Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein :bash

    - Kevin
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited June 29, 2006
    THE TOUCH wrote:
    Wow - that's very nice of you Andy! I'll take you up on your offer. I'm not planning on printing, but I didn't want to allow large prints to costumers if they were going to be poor quality.

    The pics are in the following gallery -
    http://the-touch.smugmug.com/gallery/1605204/1

    How should I send you a sample? Can you pull it from the gallery?

    Thank you Andy!
    Email the link to my attn: help@smugmug dot com

    I'll be sure and look tomw.
    Andy

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  • Art ScottArt Scott Registered Users Posts: 8,959 Major grins
    edited June 29, 2006
    Those look great.....if you are worried about going big....go to http://www.ononesoftware.com/ and download a 30 day trial of Genuine Fractals 4.1 and make them AVAILABLE extremely large..say 30 X 40 or 40 X 60 inches......GF 4.1 allows upto 20 saved files....not to many photo softwares allow saving from their demos.......
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  • THE TOUCHTHE TOUCH Registered Users Posts: 535 Major grins
    edited June 29, 2006
    Art Scott wrote:
    Those look great.....if you are worried about going big....go to http://www.ononesoftware.com/ and download a 30 day trial of Genuine Fractals 4.1 and make them AVAILABLE extremely large..say 30 X 40 or 40 X 60 inches......GF 4.1 allows upto 20 saved files....not to many photo softwares allow saving from their demos.......

    Thanks Art! I'll take a look at it.
    Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein :bash

    - Kevin
  • THE TOUCHTHE TOUCH Registered Users Posts: 535 Major grins
    edited June 29, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    Email the link to my attn: help@smugmug dot com

    I'll be sure and look tomw.

    Thanks Andy! I threw the image into the email rather than link it.

    thumb.gif
    Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein :bash

    - Kevin
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