- This is the MSI 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.
(upbeat techno music)
(hits box)
I needed a corner I needed, I,
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, Luckys in there.
(unzips zipper)
It's fine this merch isn't available
yet on the store anyways.
So let's switch over to a T-shirt that is LTTstore.com.
Now, hold on a sec.
I don't think I have ever seen an MSI laptop this rigid.
That's really impressive actually.
Not just like a uh impressive for MSI, um
that's actually really good.
The entire bottom is one gigantic air intake
across the back and see we got speaker grills
over here on the left and right.
Alex has clearly already opened this. That's hilarious.
In terms of IO, we've got exhaust on the sides, back,
yeah a solid quarter of the device
is taken up by exhaust grills.
Over on the right. We've got Micro SD,
Thunder bolt. USB three, 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 Micro SD, but that's pretty,
that's basically what I would need in terms of IO.
The one thing I would like to see is an HDMI port.
How big is the battery?
91 hours.
Alright 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 it, I can see you.
I can see right through it. Hey Brandon, come, come see,
come see if you can look through it with the camera.
You gotta be like right here.
- [Brandon] inaudible
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 + 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 clam shell,
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 x 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 Hz.
Now I'm a big fan of taller than 16 x 9 displays.
And the reason for that is from a creative standpoint,
it allows you to have more video tracks, more tools.
Um, 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. Enough 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 Brenizer method, AKA Bokehrama.
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 Boka
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 Collin's motorbike,
which my betrothed here is super into.
The only problem is that in order to capture this
environment, Brandon'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 Boka 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 Brenizer method is
you actually are not ever 100% sure
that you have every part of
the image that you need. I mean,
you can just trust your instincts, which is what I'm doing,
but I'm not a hundred percent certain that I'm not missing
like a tiny gap in between these photos.
I'm just trying to over.
Okay, cool.
Hopefully that works.
- Now that's better with a 50 millimeter lens
we've got a much more pleasing image,
but we lose this environment.
How are we going to remember where we were?
Well, that's where the Brenizer 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 Boka.
- So we have about 71 photos,
which probably is a little bit too many.
- I was going to say I think you went
a little on the side of
(camera shutter)
- 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.
- Yeah, it is going.
- Um, But all you have to do
when you do this meth, but oh, Lightroom,
- You shouldn't have clicked.
- I shouldn't have clicked. Okay, hold on.
- Oh it's back!
- Oh, 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, oh it's
it's working very hard. Cause even though this is easier
than what we're going to do later,
it's still working pretty hard.
I probably pushed it a little bit too hard.
- Well, the fact that it hasn't crashed.
- Like fully crashed. I'm impressed.
(camera man laughing)
- You laugh, but like,
- Okay, Okay! Hey, no, look,
it's selected all, it's selected all.
Okay. I'm just going to 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.
Cause it is essentially rendering a preview report.
- Right, so you might as well just render it.
- Yeah. And then once you will, once you have the preview,
then you'll know, because once the preview is completed,
if there's any gaps in where you take, took photos, Adobe
has a fill edge,
- Oh I see
- 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 you got a hole in the photo
- I don't think I gotta hole in this photo
- We took 71 picture frames
(laughing)
- But we can also show the example of the like approximation
on the wide lens,
- Yeah
- Of you from that distance,
- Right
- You can see
- I'm beautiful
- Beautiful you,
but, you can see that the rest of the photo is kind of meh.
Like it's, there's not a lot of foreground.
- Yeah it doesn't look good
- These trees are pretty dark
- Even these buildings
- The buildings are pretty unfocused. Like 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'll be a lot more like there'll be a bigger feeling
to it.
- So small, so small
Yeah How many megapixels is each of these?
- 26
- 26, well there's your problem.
- 26.1.
- Yeah. There's your problem. That 0.1
counts when you take 71 of them.
- And we're going to 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 ballistix.
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 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,
- Totally different effect though
- You can see, especially in like the buildings,
like look how much of a difference that is.
- Oh for sure
- 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 overcompensating.
(laughing)
- But yeah. Like, especially in the bushes.
- I'm impressed at how, I mean,
I shouldn't be that impressed by how seamlessly
it's been merged.
- Yeah
- I don't use Lightroom tho
- Actually, to be honest 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. Oh it's broken.
- But yeah, this is actually the third take.
- Trees like I'm whole.
- I'm I'm partially a tree.
- Oh wow. That's not even close.
- Right?
Because that's, this is one photo at the tightest point.
And then this is lots of photos.
- How long did this take to render?
- Like an hour
(laughing)
- 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%, it's another six minutes heads up.
- So 21,000 x 10,000 is what we got
out of about 70 photos of you
- (beep)
- 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 going to need to upgrade the RAM.
Now you can get the Z16 with 64 gigs of Ram out
of the box. But I mean, silly us.
How were we to know that we were going to 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
upgradable that's right my friends,
you can still buy professional grade laptops that can
actually be, uh, 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 where I can get it.
There we go. Ah, 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 right
here. More importantly, we can replace our memory.
Crucial ballistix, 2x32GB 3200MHz
Sounds great. And once you spent this much on a laptop,
this honestly is probably a pretty good investment. Okay.
You going to go in there?
You going to go in there little buddy?
Uh oh Alex. It's a so skinny.
I don't think it supports a couple sites.
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. It's got the little
imprints of the memory chip IDs.
Let's see if that fixes it. 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 get it aligned, it will not go in
literal actual sticker. Okay.
(laughing)
I have never seen tolerance as 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 chastity off, still respectable though.
I've seen laptops that are worse than this with the bottom
piece on from MSI.
(coughing)
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.
- 1 Billion Pixels
(laughing)
Probably not,
- No
- Maybe like half a billion.
And this is just going to be like
this epic landscape picture?
- It's a, it's a photo of White Rock Beach.
- And people can download it in the video description
Maybe?
- Yes
- That'd be cool.
At least on float plane.
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.
- [Camera Man] Oh you did it
- Well it's not, it's not, it's trying to do it.
It, the bar is loading and we're at 21 gigs of Ram and it's
about 2% of the way.
- I like my progress bars. Like I like my milk.
- White?
- 2%
(laughing)
- Okay. So the preview has completed.
- Oh no
- As you can see,
- Oh no Brandon
- There is a tiny gap
- Tiny?
- In this tree.
- I think the word you were looking for was gaping.
(laughing)
- Well look how big the photo is comparatively.
Also, if you look, if we do, if we undo the auto crop,
this is the pre cropped version of all these photos,
- How'd you manage to miss that?
- I don't know, but we can hit the fill edge
And in theory they will
- AI will make us some trees.
- Make us some trees and I will not be concerned
that there is a gaping hole in this photo.
- Yeah. Cause like, you can't really
just like go back to this.
- No
- And just get One specific tree
- Take that one specific tree
- Take out the pole, pull the phone. Okay. We're good.
Oh wow. We're well, over 32 gigs though.
- 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 would never know. There was a missing square there.
- Yeah. You tell you're yourself that
(laughing)
They're going to 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.
- Over 200
- Yeah. And moment of truth.
We're gonna hit merge and then we're gonna just let it go.
- Okay. Good luck everybody.
- Yeah. The Ram is 100% helping.
- Yep. Okay. Well let's let it run.
- Yeah.
- Good luck everybody.
- So it's the next day since we're at the end of the Workday
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 x 14,873.
- Yeah. So that's about half a gigapixel
to give you some perspective,
- That's 534 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. Cause 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 in and it's like, oh,
Hey, there's a guy.
- And some birds and some cars,
- The amount of detail is staggering.
- Alright. I want to print this.
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 Brenizer 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 maybe like 29 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 2,600 us dollars.
And then if you want to go to 64 gigs,
obviously that's going to cost another few hundred,
but then 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 and the size sponsored
laptop video.
(laughing)
Yeah, no, this one was good though.
The other one was disastrous our other disastrous one.
It's pretty funny though.