Panoramic Photo Prints - Where?

[zenwhipper]

I have been generating a fair amount of panoramic photos from my rides - thanks to the Iphone's nice little pano feature. I'd like to get some blown up and printed professionally. Anybody know a company that does this? I have looked but it seems the issue is that panoramic photos do not fit a conventional photo size.

Thanks Mates!

Scott

 

[Ignacio]

I'd like to get some blown up and printed professionally.

Not sure it fits the definition of "professional", but I've had good luck at Wal-Mart up to the 8x10 level and see they offer poster services at cheap prices.

But if you say they're iPhone...so not exactly professional as a source and will get very iffy the bigger you go.

Staples seems a next step up in price and quality with $40'ish for 36" wide.

I see a variety of services via Google of professional photo enlargements that are probably nice and spendier.

 

[Fred W]

I've had good luck getting digital images printed at the local Walreens drug store. But I don't know how well an iPhone image would blow up. They are fairly low res aren't they?

 

[ionbeam]

...They are fairly low res aren't they?

Current cell phones have many pixels, even many mega pixels. The pixel count probably won't be an issue. Now, about those 0.250" lenses without optical coatings.....

 

[Ignacio]

But I don't know how well an iPhone image would blow up. They are fairly low res aren't they?

The resolution isn't too bad on some, but the quality of the lens is another factor, as well as the aperture, shutter speed, and blur factors. e.g. a well lit day shot shot with a study hand is going to blow up better than a shaky shot near dusk...regardless of resolution.

 

[RossKean]

Camera manufacturers and cellphone manufacturers have been on the pixel bandwagon for quite a few years. I will gladly take an 8 (or even 4) megapixel camera with decent optics, a quality sensor chip and good exposure/autofocus software over a 16 megapixel box (or phone) with a VERY short focal length and uncoated polycarbonate POS for a lens.

 

[Fred W]

Hmmm... Just checked, and you are (both) right. Even my obsolete iPhone 4 has an 8MP (rear) camera.

My "regular" bike camera is an old 8 megapixel compact (Kodak Z812) and it takes some reasonably printable pics. Nothing stellar, but they look fine at 8x10 hung on the wall. I was thinking my iPhone was much lower resolution (in addition to the crummy lens).

I know from prior (even older) cameras that blowing up a lower res image doesn't come out good because it gets (wait for it)...

pixelly!

 

[zenwhipper]

Ok, well, here is a pic I am talking about. It actually was on a "bike" ride over Lolo Pass.

Would love to get this printed and framed.

 

[HotRodZilla]

That looks like a good pic to me. Just gotta figure out how big you can go before it stops being good,

 

[DennisJ]

Maybe Shutterfly ? https://www.shutterfly.com/home-decor/canvas-prints/gallery-panoramic-canvas-print I've used them for both Point&Shoot and phone-camera prints with good results. They do send out a lot of emails and I haven't looked to see if there is a way to limit them yet.

 

[eg23232]

ezprint.com can do panoramic prints. You can also get software, panoprinter, that will let you print the photo yourself over multiple pages (Photoshop will do it also) but you need software that won't resample your original pic. You could also buy photopaper in a roll. Without some color-correction, enlarging a phone-shot picture to a large size may not reproduce the way you want it to.

 

[zenwhipper]

ezprints.com looks like it may work. I sent them two panos and it was super easy. Based on the photo you up load, you decide the height of the print you want and the width is extrapolated based on the native dimension of the photo. I selected 10" high and the photo widths came out to be about 31 inches. Each print was $14.00. I'm pretty stoked.

Thanks for tips folks!

Scott