 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. I needed a corner. 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 work stations from years gone by. So, I'm gonna go ahead and start with the laptop. I'm gonna start with the laptop. I'm gonna start with the laptop. I'm gonna start with the laptop. I'm gonna start with the laptop. I wanna play that lose some dexterity monkey again, so that I can它 Temporary I'm not ballooning. That's actually really good. The entire bottom is one gigantic air intake across the back. You can see we've 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, 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 IO. The one thing I would like to see is an HDMI port. How big's the battery? I think it's 90 watt hours. 90 watt hours. All right then. Let's 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 see, I can see you. I can see right through it. Hey Brandon, come see if you can look through it. Look at the camera. So you gotta 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 TruePixel 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 16 by nine 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 task bar and not be giving up that extra real estate at the bottom of your screen. I'm a huge fan. And not foreplayed though, the technique that we're gonna be using to create our giant image and really show off the grunt of this laptop is called the Brenizer method, AKA Bokeh-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 Colin's motorbike, which my betrothed here is super into. The only problem is that in order to capture this environment, Brandon's gotta 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 Brenizer 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 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 gonna 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 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. But all you have to do when you do this, oh, no, Lightroom. You shouldn't have clicked. I shouldn't have clicked. Okay, hold on. Oh, it's back. 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 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. 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. Then you right click. And then you go to photo merge. And then you go to panorama. And that's it. And then it gives you a preview, which takes almost as much time as it takes to render. Cause it is essentially rendering a preview. Right, so you might as well just render it. Yeah, and then once you have the preview, then you'll know. Cause once the preview is completed, if there's any gaps in where you took photos, Adobe has a fill edge. Oh, I see. 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 got a hole in this photo. You took 71 pictures right. But we can also show the example of the like approximation on the wide lens of you from that distance. 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. These trees are pretty dark. Even these buildings. The buildings are pretty in focus. Like 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 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've overdone it already, but we'll see. Okay. We're back. So after a little bit, this is now finished. 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. 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. Well, 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 right along the line. This is actually the third take. Tree's like, hello. I'm partially a tree. Yeah. 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. 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. That's 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. I'll just. 216 megapixels. Wow. Yeah. I think we can do more. We can do more. But first, we're gonna need to upgrade the RAM. 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 upgradable. 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 bonus marks, MSI. But being able to do it at all is somehow a win these days. So I guess I'll take it or I can get it. There we go. Aw yeah. Wow, it's a small motherboard, isn't it? Where is our M.2 drive? 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, you gonna go in? You gonna go in there, little buddy? Oh, Alex. It's so skinny. I don't think it supports double sided dens. Oh my God, is it just the difference in like the heat spreader thickness? I think I have to take off the heat spreader. Oh, yeah. It's like a metallic style heat spreader. Oh, that's cute. Look at that. Got the little imprints of the memory chip IDs. Let's see if that fixes it. You 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. I have never seen tolerances this tight 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 from 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 a photo of White Rock Beach. And people can download it in the video description maybe? Yes. That'd be cool. 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 wanna see if it works. Yeah. Okay, so I've selected all 371 photos. So I'm just, oh, there you go. Oh, it did it. Well, it's not, it's trying to do 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%. Oh my God. 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. Well, look how big the photo is comparatively. Also, if you look, 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, it will 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 the pole. Take that one specific tree. Just pick out the pole, the phone. 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 tell yourself that, right? They're gonna know this. But yeah, you can see 41 of the 267 photos were not able to be merged, but that's okay. Cause we still have a full photo. Over 200. Yeah. And moment of truth, we're gonna hit merge. And we're gonna just let it go. Okay, good luck everybody. Yeah, the RAM is 100% helping. Yeah. Okay. So let's let it run. Yeah. Good luck everybody. So it's the next day since we were at the end of the workday yesterday, but it's done. It's crazy. Like, 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 insane resolution. 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 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 in and it's like, oh, hey, there's a guy. And some birds and some cars. The amount of detail is staggering. I want to print this. I think I'm gonna 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 gonna just do this all the time now. Yeah. For anyone, this is my first time using the Brenneiser 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 20, nine to 20, 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 gonna 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. This one wasn't bad. Yeah, no, this one was good. No, the other one was disastrous. Our other disastrous one. It's pretty funny though.