• bearing

    Posted by Brian Little on 14 February 2006 at 13:22

    hi folks looking for a good quality picture of the above .Thats right its surprisingly a bearing company Ive got one here but the company i use for my didgis say it ain’t very good quality


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    Brian Little replied 19 years, 10 months ago 7 Members · 17 Replies
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  • Andy Gorman

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    14 February 2006 at 13:38

    Have you got access to a digital camera? Maybe the company could give you a bearing to photograph. Maybe?

  • Brian Little

    Member
    14 February 2006 at 14:21

    yep i do andy ….dont know much about pixels tho ….but it is a good camera .The company i use for my didgys say that if they enlarge quality will be reduced …i can understand that bit just hope cameras a bit better 😀

  • Robert Lambie

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    14 February 2006 at 14:40

    is that a tiny wee video camera sitting next to it? 😉 :lol1:

  • Brian Little

    Member
    14 February 2006 at 14:55

    😀 😀

  • Shane Drew

    Member
    14 February 2006 at 20:09
    quote Brian Little:

    yep i do andy ….dont know much about pixels tho ….but it is a good camera .The company i use for my didgys say that if they enlarge quality will be reduced …i can understand that bit just hope cameras a bit better 😀

    Brian, as the image gets bigger, the pixles reduce. If your client wants a 300dpi image at 1m x 1m say, and you have an image that is 500mm x 500mm, your image will need to be 1200dpi to come out the right size. Because it takes 4 500mm x 500mm images to fit into a 1m x 1m area, the pixels have to be reduceable by the factor of 4.

    Hope that makes sense.

    Rips will do a great job of enlarge good quality files, but if you start with a poor quality one, a rip will not improve it.

    I am not sure how big you want to go, but a good quality 5 or 6mp camera should do he trick.

    Just a tip tho, if it is an auto focus, the image will be overall fuzzy when enlarged to a maximum size. You don’t see it of a reasonable size image, but blowing the thing up really shows the focus. That is why a lot of photo sites will not buy auto focus shots.

    Hope it is not too confusing. (and my maths is right 😕 )

  • Brian Little

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    14 February 2006 at 20:15

    no shane ill keep this post. Know doubt one day ill get my own didgy printer and understand a bit more about them and what the requirements are for them . That’s the great thing about this site its a bank of knowledge

    Cheers mate and thanks for posting

    brian

  • Shane Drew

    Member
    14 February 2006 at 20:20
    quote Brian Little:

    no shane ill keep this post. Know doubt one day ill get my own didgy printer and understand a bit more about them and what the requirements are for them . That’s the great thing about this site its a bank of knowledge

    Cheers mate and thanks for posting

    brian

    No worries mate. I should clarify that the auto focus issues are only a problem for prints seen at close range. They would not be an issue for distance shots, but then pixel quality will not be an issue either. A 50 or 75 dpi image from a distance would not be noticed at all, but up close they’d look pretty dodgy

  • Brian Little

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    14 February 2006 at 21:14

    😀 😀

  • Nick Minall

    Member
    14 February 2006 at 21:19

    Brian, do you still need a pic? I can take one tomorrow if its any help.

    Nick.

  • Brian Little

    Member
    14 February 2006 at 21:22

    yes nick that would be great id really appreciate it 😀 😀

    Regards Brian

  • Brian Little

    Member
    14 February 2006 at 21:24

    its only going to be 460mm in height and what ever it is porpotionaly

  • Nick Minall

    Member
    14 February 2006 at 21:25

    No problem, do you want it similar to the one you posted?

    Nick

  • Brian Little

    Member
    14 February 2006 at 21:27

    yeh if you could nick but its no big deal if it isnt they sell the lot 😀

  • David Rogers

    Member
    14 February 2006 at 21:28

    You can do wonders in photoshop or similar by ‘interpolating’ the image to make extra pixels and increase the apparent resolution. It doesn’t improve the image like you see on every dumb TV show or movie, but it WILL reduce the large pixel spots into much smoother, smaller ones. It’s a bit more pleasing on the eye.

    Just think of a 1″ square at 10dpi, very grainy. Blow it up to 10″ and you’d have 1″ solid squares. An intelligent interpolation program can ‘guess’ at the extra pixels it creates to smooth it out. eg. same 1″ square interpolated to 100dpi, at 10×10″ the pixels will only be 1/10th”, and those filler pixels MAY blend the edges slightly to soften the chunky original pixels.

    This made very little sense typing it….hopefully you can see what I mean. The second image is a section of teacup rim.


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  • Brian Little

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    14 February 2006 at 21:40

    Cheers dave …a “clear” case of pictures speak louder than words .this year ive decided im gona have to update all my equipment . This is simply no good anymore . A lot of the programmes that people are talking about are designed for XP im still on 98 to run 4.95 signlab 😀

  • Marekdlux

    Member
    14 February 2006 at 21:58

    Get your bearings straight Brian, and then you can just grin and bear it. 😳
    I don’t know how john makes it look so easy.
    -Marek

  • Brian Little

    Member
    14 February 2006 at 22:09

    im bearing my sole for this piccy .so just bear with me while i think of a few more punns…..the smilys aint working lol lol

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