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Ian Hurst (Troyka) wrote:
i have just had some prints done with a photo box affiliate, and was not able to print the whole image, it seems my pics even uncroped ones are not the same size as the available print options. is this common? and id there an online place i can get the digital prints i want? i use a canon A80 -------------------------- Youth Work Resources the youth work website http://www.youthworker.org.uk -------------------------- If I am not mistaken (apologies if I am) this is to do with ratios. One has a format ratio of 3 to 2 (sometimes written 3:2) and these will match a 6 by 4 inch print lovely without any cropping at all. Now the other ratio is 4 to 3 (equally 4:3) and as you may guess trying to map a 4:3 image to a 3:2 print means that something in the image has to go. Then the conundrum starts. Why do digital image printers stick to a 3:2 print ratio when most digital images are taken at a 4:3 ratio? Heck! I dunno! The ratios are calculated usually on (long side): (short side) So a 6:4 reduces to 3:2 after division by 2 You could use your software and computer to crop digital images to match the print size. Save the files under a different name so as not to write over the originals ... then print Aerticeus |
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Ian Hurst (Troyka) wrote:
i have just had some prints done with a photo box affiliate, and was not able to print the whole image, it seems my pics even uncroped ones are not the same size as the available print options. is this common? and id there an online place i can get the digital prints i want? i use a canon A80 -------------------------- Youth Work Resources the youth work website http://www.youthworker.org.uk -------------------------- Simple old problem. Same old problem with film cameras. The original image is a certain shape (ratio of height to length) and the print size is different. Something has to give. There are two solutions. The paper or the image can be cropped. You can have (additional) white space on the print or crop some of the image. You could also stretch the image, but not many people would be happy with that. Complicating the problem are different standard paper sized. A 8x10 is the same shape as a 4x5 but not the same as a 5X7 and neither match the shape of a 4x6. The cropping or white space correction is different for all of those shapes. Add in the Metric shapes outside North America and you get a feeling for the problem. No one image shape is going to fit all the paper shapes. Even a paper shape changes as an even size border is added. -- Joseph Meehan 26 + 6 = 1 It's Irish Math |
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Ian Hurst (Troyka) wrote:
i have just had some prints done with a photo box affiliate, and was not able to print the whole image, it seems my pics even uncroped ones are not the same size as the available print options. is this common? and id there an online place i can get the digital prints i want? i use a canon A80 -------------------------- Youth Work Resources the youth work website http://www.youthworker.org.uk -------------------------- Simple old problem. Same old problem with film cameras. The original image is a certain shape (ratio of height to length) and the print size is different. Something has to give. There are two solutions. The paper or the image can be cropped. You can have (additional) white space on the print or crop some of the image. You could also stretch the image, but not many people would be happy with that. Complicating the problem are different standard paper sized. A 8x10 is the same shape as a 4x5 but not the same as a 5X7 and neither match the shape of a 4x6. The cropping or white space correction is different for all of those shapes. Add in the Metric shapes outside North America and you get a feeling for the problem. No one image shape is going to fit all the paper shapes. Even a paper shape changes as an even size border is added. -- Joseph Meehan 26 + 6 = 1 It's Irish Math |
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Try www.winkflash.com $0.16 for 4X6" prints. I have had great luck
with them. They use fuji crystal archive. Paul "Ian Hurst (Troyka)" wrote in message . .. i have just had some prints done with a photo box affiliate, and was not able to print the whole image, it seems my pics even uncroped ones are not the same size as the available print options. is this common? and id there an online place i can get the digital prints i want? i use a canon A80 -------------------------- Youth Work Resources the youth work website http://www.youthworker.org.uk -------------------------- |
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Try www.winkflash.com $0.16 for 4X6" prints. I have had great luck
with them. They use fuji crystal archive. Paul "Ian Hurst (Troyka)" wrote in message . .. i have just had some prints done with a photo box affiliate, and was not able to print the whole image, it seems my pics even uncroped ones are not the same size as the available print options. is this common? and id there an online place i can get the digital prints i want? i use a canon A80 -------------------------- Youth Work Resources the youth work website http://www.youthworker.org.uk -------------------------- |
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"Aerticeus" wrote in message ... Why do digital image printers stick to a 3:2 print ratio when most digital images are taken at a 4:3 ratio? Heck! I dunno! When Oscar Barnack developed the 35mm format for the original Leica, he based his calculations on the fact that the human eye sees in about that same aspect ratio. Also, painters for hundreds of years have used canvas sized to approximately the same ratio (the "Golden Mean"). We have become used to this aspect ratio. Prints that are too long or too wide seem uncomfortable to view. I have always preferred the 35mm aspect ratio over my Medium Format square negative ratio. |
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"Aerticeus" wrote in message ... Why do digital image printers stick to a 3:2 print ratio when most digital images are taken at a 4:3 ratio? Heck! I dunno! When Oscar Barnack developed the 35mm format for the original Leica, he based his calculations on the fact that the human eye sees in about that same aspect ratio. Also, painters for hundreds of years have used canvas sized to approximately the same ratio (the "Golden Mean"). We have become used to this aspect ratio. Prints that are too long or too wide seem uncomfortable to view. I have always preferred the 35mm aspect ratio over my Medium Format square negative ratio. |
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