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Blowing up printed photo by taking a shot of that photo?


3 years 7 months ago #694973 by ShutterPal
My neighbor has an old photo of his son that is 18x24".  He doesn't have the original negative and wants a larger shot of it.  Is this possible by taking a head on shot of the photo with a high MP camera sensor?
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3 years 7 months ago #694976 by Nikon Shooter
You could attempt such project with at least an IQ80
or larger. I do similar challenging works with it since I
know the D850 is not enough.
Light is free… capturing it is not!
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3 years 7 months ago #695000 by ShutterPal
Are you saying 80MP would be needed?   I don't have that sort of fire power either, man I thought something like a D850 or R5 might do the trick.  I know people with each of these cameras, that I'm sure would like me borrow their camera for this one off shot.
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3 years 7 months ago #695007 by Nikon Shooter
I'm sorry, you did not mention the final size of the reproduction,
just the size of the original. The said cameras will do fine only IF
there is little repairs to preform and — for high quality results —
consider carefully the enlargement.

If a "perfect" copy is required, colour rendition will be critical.
Light is free… capturing it is not!
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3 years 7 months ago #695010 by fmw
Yes you can do this and, yes, the resulting print will be of lower quality than the original.  You can't increase the resolution by doing this, by the way, whether the original print was made from a digital or analog photo.  The required resolution of the shooting camera is determined by the size of the enlarged print, Not the original.
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3 years 7 months ago #695111 by Greg Friedman
True, but as I understand, going this route, you can expect to see a 20-35% increase over the original.  A friend went through this process back in 2018.  I could have sworn he was able to squeeze out the final print close to 35% larger.  
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3 years 7 months ago - 3 years 7 months ago #695113 by Screamin Scott
I think you would be better off scanning it and getting larger print made of it or doing the enlargement yourself with Gigapixel AI from Topaz. Whichever route you go, I would expect some loss of image quality.
Scott Ditzel Photography

www.flickr.com/photos/screaminscott/
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3 years 7 months ago #695178 by CharleyL
When faced with this problem as far back as 22 years ago, I have always scanned the photo with a high quality scanner in sections, and then use Photoshop and "layering" to piece the image back together digitally, much like the process of making a composite photo. I have never attempted any significant enlarging of the final digital photo though. In most cases they have always been made smaller, rather than larger, after being converted to digital. 

Charley
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