this is the NSI Creator Z16 a laptop
designed to be the ultimate in performance for digital creators and we
are going to be pushing it to its absolute limit attempting to create a
seven and a half gigapixel image
whether or not that's actually going to work we're not sure but we sure hope so
because this video is sponsored by MSI and the last thing we want is a repeat
of last time
I needed a corner I need I had I like to start with a corner
there we go and who says powerful
laptops have to be thick anymore even if
the laptop was this thick it would be thinner than like a lot of the portable
workstations from Years Gone by
let's open this puppy up oh look Lucky's in there
it's fine this merch isn't available yet on the store anyway so let's switch over
to a t-shirt that is lttstore.com now
hold on a second I don't think I have ever seen
an MSI laptop this rigid
that's really impressive actually not just like a impressive for MSI
um it's actually really good the entire
bottom is that one gigantic air intake across the back you can see we got
speaker grilles over here on the left and right Alex has clearly already
opened this that's hilarious in terms of i o we've got exhaust on the
sides back yeah solid quarter of the
device is taken up by exhaust grills over on the right we've got micro SD
Thunderbolt USB 3 10 gigabit per second
a type a port and then oh basically the exact same thing over on the left there
is a barrel plug for power and a headphone jack instead of the micro SD
but that's pretty that's basically what I would
need in terms of i o the one thing I would like to see is an HDMI port topics
of battery 90 watt hours
all right then open it up though
there's not one not two but three fans
here here and here and it appears as
though in order to keep the intakes on them as
unrestricted as possible they're actually pulling in air from both the
top and bottom of the device that is really cool like I can I can see I can
see you I can see right through it hey Brandon come come see if you can look
through it flip the camera it's you got to be like right here
can you see me moving back and forth back here
makes sense it needs so much cooling it's got an Intel Core I9 11900h and an
RTX 3060 so it's very powerful on both
the CPU and GPU side of things of course one of the biggest selling points of
this machine isn't what's in the bottom half of the clamshell but rather what's
in the top half this is what MSI is calling their true pixel touch display
it's a 16 inch 2560 by 1600 400 nit Peak
brightness display that is pre-calibrated to a Delta e of less than
two so the idea here is that you've got a portable machine that has basically a
professional grade creative monitor on it not only that but if you like to game
in your off time it even runs at 120 hertz now I'm a big fan of taller than
16x9 displays and the reason for that is from a creative standpoint it allows you
to have more video tracks more tools it
allows you to just not Auto Hide Your taskbar and not be giving up that extra
real estate at the bottom of your screen I'm a huge fan and not foreplay though
the technique that we're going to be using to create our Giant image and
really show off the grunt of this laptop is called the brennizer method AKA Boca
Rama it's a technique that is super popular in both portrait and especially
wedding photography because what it allows you to do is create an extra wide
angle image but still have that pleasing
bokeh that draws the viewer's eye to the subject let's go out to the Courtyard to
show you guys how it works this is great we've got our Dream
photographer this gorgeous location with
the greenery and the industrial building and Collins motorbike which my betrothed
here is super into the only problem is that in order to
capture this environment Brennan's got to use a wide-angle lens and unless
you've got a really expensive camera with a large sensor and a matching
expensive fast lens you can't get that bokeh effect with a wide angle shot and
even if you do it doesn't look as natural as it does with a telephoto lens
the one super fun thing about the bruneiser method is you actually are not
ever 100 sure that you have every part
of the image that you need I mean you could just trust your instincts which is
what I'm doing but I'm not 100 certain that I'm not missing like a tiny Gap in
between these photos I'm just trying to over
okay cool hopefully uh that works now
that's better with a 50 millimeter lens we get a much more pleasing image but we
lose this environment how are we going to remember where we were
well that's where the brandeiser method comes in Brandon can take 20 30 40 50 as
many as he wants really additional shots from the same position with the same
lens then we can stitch them all together to get what is essentially The
Best of Both Worlds nice wide angle nice pleasing bokeh so we have about 71
photos which is probably a little bit too many I was gonna say I think you
went a little on the side I went really ham to just make sure we were covered on
the entire area so for this method it's probably better to
use fewer but I've already started the render for this it's you can see it
going in the corner it is going um but all you have to do when you do this oh
oh Lightroom I shouldn't have clicked okay hold on
there we go so you select all of these
here I can probably do the select all let's see if it lets me oh oh it's it's
working very hard because even though this is a easier
than what we're going to do later it's still working pretty hard I probably
push it a little bit too hard well the fact that it hasn't crashed like fully
crashed I'm impressed
you laugh but like okay okay hey no look it's selected all it's selected all okay
I'm just gonna show you what I did so that we don't actually have to disturb
this but you just select everything yeah then you right click yeah and then you
go to photo merge yeah and then you go to Panorama and then that's it and then
it gives you a preview which takes almost as much time as it takes to
render it because it is essentially rendering it a preview right so you might as well just render it yeah and
then once you well once you have the preview then you'll know because once
the preview is completed if there's any gaps in where you take to photos
Adobe has a fill Edge like
um AI thing and it works surprisingly well so if you've got like a little tiny
hole in the photo I don't think it can still hold on the photo I don't think I got a hole in the photo
but we can also show the example of the
like approximation on the wide lens yeah
A View From that distance right you can see I'm beautiful
you but you can see that the rest of the photo is kind of meh like it's it
there's not a lot of foreground these trees are pretty dark even these
buildings the buildings are pretty in Focus like it's it's there's no depth so
the hope is once this photo is rendered
we will actually have a photo with much more depth you will be still small but
there will be a lot more like there'll be a bigger feeling to it so small yeah
how many megapixels is each of these 26 26 well there's your 26.1 yeah there's
your problem that point one counts when you take 71 of them
and we're gonna try 250 later oh good
I did notice that as part of our preparation for this video we grabbed a
64 gig kit of crucial ballistics how much RAM are we using right now let's
take a look 23 out of the 32 gigs and the photo
isn't fully rendered yet so hopefully
we don't we don't overdo it it might
already need the 64. I might have overdone it already but we'll see
okay we're back so after a little bit this is no finish for an effect though
you can see especially in like the buildings like look how much of a
difference that is I mean again this is a larger photo overall because I
approximated what it would look like on the wide but you might say you were over
compensating but yeah like especially in the bushes I
am impressed at how I mean I shouldn't be that impressed by how seamlessly it's
been merged yeah actually to be honest there's we did two takes of this and the
second take did not fare as well there's
the other take and you see it didn't love this tree this tree is here fine
here not fine yeah but yeah this is
actually the third take trees like uh hello I'm I'm I'm I'm
partially a tree yeah oh wow that's not
even close right because that that's this is one photo at
the tightest point and this is lots of photos right how long did this take to
render like an hour
so this is one of those things where okay maybe this new generation of laptop
is only 20 faster than the old one or even only 10 faster but when it's a
render that literally takes an hour every 10 is another six minutes adds up
so 21 000 by 10 000 is what we got out of about 70 photos of you
damn or 70 photos of this area how many megapixels is that hold on a second
216 megapixels wow yeah I think we can
do more we can do more but first we're
gonna need to upgrade the rim now you can get the Creator Z16 with 64 gigs of
RAM out of the box but I mean silly us how were we to know that we were gonna
need to stitch together 200 photos so we went with the 32 gig model thankfully
this also gives us an opportunity to show off that this is upgradeable that's
right my friends you can still buy professional grade laptops that can
actually be improved it's not the easiest I really
wish that these screws were not under the rubber feet at the back that would
be that would be bonus marks MSI but
being able to do it at all is like somehow
um a win these days so I guess I'll take it or I can get it
there we go oh yeah
wow it's a small motherboard isn't it
where is our m.2 drive oh oh it's got
spots for two of them oh cool so there's still an open m.2 slot I just couldn't
see it because it's actually on the Underside relative to where I'm looking
at it from it's right here more importantly
we can replace our memory
crucial ballistics 3200 cl16 sounds
great and once you've spent this much on a laptop
this honestly is probably a pretty good investment okay are you gonna go in
you're gonna go in there little buddy oh Alex it's uh so skinny I don't think it
supports a couple sided dins oh my God is it just the difference in
like the heat spreader thickness I think I have to take off the heat spreader
it's like a metallic style heat spreader oh that's cute look at that got the
little got the little imprints of the memory chip IDs
let's see if that fixes it totally did it's in come check this out
David just to prove to you that I'm not making it up look at this
it will not hold on let me give it a line it will not go in literal actual
sticker okay
I've never seen tolerances this type before in my life I mean that I've
noticed obviously lots of products have pieces that fit together with that level
of precision but I've never seen it
actually matter like this this might be the best machine that I've ever seen
from MSI loses some of the rigidity when you take the bottom of the chassis off
still respectable though I've seen laptops that are worse than this with
the bottom piece on MSI
and there we are 64 gigs of RAM six of
which we're using already and it's time to give the reins back to Brandon so I
actually have no idea what resolution this photo is going to be one billion
pixels probably not no maybe like half a
billion and this is just gonna be like this epic landscape picture it's uh it's
a photo of White Rock Beach and people
can download it in the video description maybe yes that'd be cool yeah at least
on Floatplane I don't know if we have any way of hosting it reliably for YouTube viewers to be fair to anyone who
does this method of taking photos this technique you do not need nearly this
many photos to do this technique you could do it with nine photos we're just
pushing it to an extreme that is completely unnecessary and not
necessarily even the proper way to do it but we want to see if it works yeah
okay so I've selected all 371 photos
so I'm just oh there we go well it's not it's not it's trying to do
it the bar is loading and we're out 21
gigs of RAM and it's about two percent of the way I
like my progress bars like I like my milk
white two percent
okay so the preview has completed oh no as you can see oh no there is a tiny Gap
tiny in this tree I think the word you
were looking for was gaping well look how big the photo is comparatively also
it if you look if we do if we undo the auto crop this is the pre-cropped
version of all these photos so how did you manage to miss that I don't know
a fell Edge Theory
it will make us some trees and I will have not be I will not be concerned that
there is a gaping hole in this photo yeah because like you can't really just
like go back to this no and just get just just take that one specific tree
out to pull out the phone yeah okay we're good oh wow we're well over 32
gigs though so the RAM was definitely an issue before and the fact that we have
64 is clearly helping in this case
filled edges oh nice pretty good you'd
never know there was a missing Square there yeah you're telling yourself they're
gonna know but yeah you can see 41 of 267 photos
were not able to be merged but that's okay because we still have a full photo
100 yeah and Moment of Truth we're gonna
hit merge we're gonna just let it go okay good luck everybody
yeah the RAM is 100 helping yeah okay so
well let's let it run yeah good luck everybody
so it's the next day since we are at the end of the work day yesterday but it's
done it's crazy like look look at it
it's actually pretty impressive and if we go into
Lightroom you can see the resolution is 35
913 by 14 873. yeah so that's about half a
gigapixel to give you some perspective that's
34 megapixels if we did the calculator but the really cool thing is when you
look at the photo in the photo viewer you can just zoom right in and we still
have a lot of detail in here because
it's just a photo at that distance but
a lot of them it's such a crazy effect because like
it's a wide but there's like geese here that are just dots
and then you just go in and it's like oh hello I can completely see this Goose
there's four of them there's a family right there yeah and there's like people
in here that are just you can't see them at all and you go and it's like oh hey
there's a guy and some birds and some cars the amount of detail is staggering
I mean I want to print this I think I'm going to print this and you guys can
download it in the link in the description yeah I want to make a bunch
of these I really love telephoto lenses and I'm going to just do this all the
time now yeah for anyone this is my first time using the brandeiser method
and for anyone who was thinking if they wanted to try it give it a shot it's a
lot of fun maybe don't do it with 200 photos
but um maybe like 20 9 to 20 you'll be
you'll be real good and if you're a wedding photographer in particular very
useful freaking unbelievable thanks to MSI for sponsoring this video and for
sending over your creator Z16 laptop I think we've demonstrated that no matter
what it is you're trying to do with it this is one capable machine the spec
we've got is 2600 US Dollars and then if you want to go to 64 gigs obviously
that's going to cost another few hundred but man is there ever a lot to like
about it everything from the performance to the display to the build quality
freaking awesome if you guys enjoyed this video maybe check out our other
disastrous MSI sponsored laptop video
yeah I know this one was good no the other one was disastrous our other
disastrous one it's pretty funny though