[Leica] Print enlargement

[Ken Carney]

You are welcome.  If nothing else, it sparked an interest in learning 
about AI (my previous knowledge stopped at the HAL 9000).

Ken


On 12/29/2018 8:25 PM, scleroplex via LUG wrote:
> Thank you!
> Learnt something new.
> Bharani
>
>
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> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 14:19:02 -0600
> From: Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Print enlargement
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> This may be old news, but I thought it was interesting.? Here is a photo
> where I couldn't get close enough with a 200mm lens, and had to settle
> for a crop of 1677x2516 out of 3744x5616, or a 6x9" image at 279ppi.? I
> got a trial of Topaz AI Gigapixel and enlarged it to 22x33" at 300ppi.?
> This was out of curiosity since I don't have anything that will print
> that large.? But, it looks promising for small crops to print, say this
> one at 12x18", about the largest I print.? Topaz's pitch is that this is
> not interpolation, but an artificial intelligence program ("deep
> learning" they say) that in effect recreates the image.? Whatever, it
> seems way superior to Photoshop interpolation or Alien Skin Blowup.
>
> Ken
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/_MG_2478_output.jpg.html
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