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Running LCD Displays at 1280 x 1024 and effects on photos
Just purchased a 17" LCD (LG L1710s) which runs at 1280 x 1024
resolution. Photos look great but problem is my images don't fit properly in the screen. There is a gap at top and bottom of screen which from what i read is due to the different aspect ratio of the LCD Monitor. I can run the LCD at 1280/960 and the pictures look great,entire screen is filled, but the text looks lousy so not a good solution. Is there a fix to get the images to fill the entire screen while keeping my resolution at 1280 x 1024? I can't believe they are selling millions of these monitors and images don't fit properly. |
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"Steve" wrote in message om... Just purchased a 17" LCD (LG L1710s) which runs at 1280 x 1024 resolution. Photos look great but problem is my images don't fit properly in the screen. There is a gap at top and bottom of screen which from what i read is due to the different aspect ratio of the LCD Monitor. I can run the LCD at 1280/960 and the pictures look great,entire screen is filled, but the text looks lousy so not a good solution. Is there a fix to get the images to fill the entire screen while keeping my resolution at 1280 x 1024? I can't believe they are selling millions of these monitors and images don't fit properly. Cameras have pixel ratios all over the place. Most of the time you will not get an exact fit. You will encounter black lines at the top and bottom or on the sides or...the picture will not be shown in its entirety on the screen. The same is true of wide screen versus normal screen in the dvd world. It is just the physics of it. Not the manufacturers fault. |
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"Steve" wrote in message om... Just purchased a 17" LCD (LG L1710s) which runs at 1280 x 1024 resolution. Photos look great but problem is my images don't fit properly in the screen. There is a gap at top and bottom of screen which from what i read is due to the different aspect ratio of the LCD Monitor. I can run the LCD at 1280/960 and the pictures look great,entire screen is filled, but the text looks lousy so not a good solution. Is there a fix to get the images to fill the entire screen while keeping my resolution at 1280 x 1024? I can't believe they are selling millions of these monitors and images don't fit properly. Cameras have pixel ratios all over the place. Most of the time you will not get an exact fit. You will encounter black lines at the top and bottom or on the sides or...the picture will not be shown in its entirety on the screen. The same is true of wide screen versus normal screen in the dvd world. It is just the physics of it. Not the manufacturers fault. |
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"Steve" wrote in message
om... Just purchased a 17" LCD (LG L1710s) which runs at 1280 x 1024 resolution. Photos look great but problem is my images don't fit properly in the screen. There is a gap at top and bottom of screen which from what i read is due to the different aspect ratio of the LCD Monitor. I can run the LCD at 1280/960 and the pictures look great,entire screen is filled, but the text looks lousy so not a good solution. Is there a fix to get the images to fill the entire screen while keeping my resolution at 1280 x 1024? I can't believe they are selling millions of these monitors and images don't fit properly. Wait till you try printing your images and discover that the prints cut off parts of the picture. All the standard American print sizes 11x14, 8x10, 5x7, 4x6, 3.5x5, have different aspect ratios. Some of the cameras have different aspect ratios based on the different sizes of the CCD sensors. Within one camera there are often different aspect ratios for different selectable size images you can take. Selectable screen parameters on monitors and video cards have different aspect ratios. There is no standard, and it's not clear that there would be a great benefit if there were. Why blame the monitor? Alan |
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"Steve" wrote in message
om... Just purchased a 17" LCD (LG L1710s) which runs at 1280 x 1024 resolution. Photos look great but problem is my images don't fit properly in the screen. There is a gap at top and bottom of screen which from what i read is due to the different aspect ratio of the LCD Monitor. I can run the LCD at 1280/960 and the pictures look great,entire screen is filled, but the text looks lousy so not a good solution. Is there a fix to get the images to fill the entire screen while keeping my resolution at 1280 x 1024? I can't believe they are selling millions of these monitors and images don't fit properly. Wait till you try printing your images and discover that the prints cut off parts of the picture. All the standard American print sizes 11x14, 8x10, 5x7, 4x6, 3.5x5, have different aspect ratios. Some of the cameras have different aspect ratios based on the different sizes of the CCD sensors. Within one camera there are often different aspect ratios for different selectable size images you can take. Selectable screen parameters on monitors and video cards have different aspect ratios. There is no standard, and it's not clear that there would be a great benefit if there were. Why blame the monitor? Alan |
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Steve wrote:
Is there a fix to get the images to fill the entire screen while keeping my resolution at 1280 x 1024? Yeah, prepare your images meant for viewing on that screen to be 1280x1024. I can't believe they are selling millions of these monitors and images don't fit properly. That's nothing compared to what they done with shoes. I went to a store the other day, and they had hundreds, maybe thousands of 'em in stock that didn't fit my feet! Assuming you're not a troll, or just having a little Christmas fun, the serious answer is that you will discover over time that there are dozens of variables in the creation of images. Aspect ratio is only one of those variables. What seems like a confusing mess right now will soon become more clear as you work your way through the confusion. Soon you will be creating folders on your computer with different version of photographs for different purposes -- archives straight from the camera, versions optimized for printing, screen show versions, PowerPoint versions, and versions meant for viewing on your new monitor. |
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Steve wrote:
Just purchased a 17" LCD (LG L1710s) which runs at 1280 x 1024 resolution. Photos look great but problem is my images don't fit properly in the screen. There is a gap at top and bottom of screen which from what i read is due to the different aspect ratio of the LCD Monitor. I can run the LCD at 1280/960 and the pictures look great,entire screen is filled, but the text looks lousy so not a good solution. Is there a fix to get the images to fill the entire screen while keeping my resolution at 1280 x 1024? I can't believe they are selling millions of these monitors and images don't fit properly. See if you have different pic size setting available on your camera. I know that on my old olympus i could set it to monitor ratio, or standard analog film ratio , which is 3:2. And sometimes camera's best resolution is a bit different than monitor size, but there are lower resolutions available, like 1600x1200, which will fit (after resizing). Note that monitor ratio is 4:3, while - for example on my Canon S1 max resolution (whixh is 2048x1536) is 5:4, while i do have 1600x1200 1024x768 , both 4:3. On the other hand i think i did see some picture player which can resize monitor size temporarily - only while showing pics...just i'd be damned if i remember where... |
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On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 18:08:28 GMT, you, "Harvey"
, wrote in : "Steve" wrote in message om... Just purchased a 17" LCD (LG L1710s) which runs at 1280 x 1024 resolution. Photos look great but problem is my images don't fit properly in the screen. There is a gap at top and bottom of screen which from what i read is due to the different aspect ratio of the LCD Monitor. I can run the LCD at 1280/960 and the pictures look great,entire screen is filled, but the text looks lousy so not a good solution. Is there a fix to get the images to fill the entire screen while keeping my resolution at 1280 x 1024? I can't believe they are selling millions of these monitors and images don't fit properly. Cameras have pixel ratios all over the place. Most of the time you will not get an exact fit. You will encounter black lines at the top and bottom or on the sides or...the picture will not be shown in its entirety on the screen. The same is true of wide screen versus normal screen in the dvd world. It is just the physics of it. Not the manufacturers fault. It is the manufacturer's fault if it doesn't display anything correctly at 1280x960 res which is the correct aspect ratio for a 4x3 LCD. If 1280x1024 is the native resolution of the LCD then it doesn't have square pixels and will not display nicely anything that requires square pixels. Correct me if I'm wrong. -- T.N.T. Lbh xabj jung gb qb vs lbh rire jnag gb rznvy zr. |
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"T.N.T." writes:
It is the manufacturer's fault if it doesn't display anything correctly at 1280x960 res which is the correct aspect ratio for a 4x3 LCD. If 1280x1024 is the native resolution of the LCD then it doesn't have square pixels and will not display nicely anything that requires square pixels. Correct me if I'm wrong. From his description of text looking good at 1280x1024 and bad at 1280x960, we can likely conclude that the panel itself is 1280x1024. However, I'll bet that the pixels are actually square, and the active area of the screen has a 1.25 aspect ratio (5:4), not 1.33 like a classical CRT. If that's true setting the graphics card to 1280x1024 will display digital images correctly, including making circles round. In that case, his only complaint is that the camera doesn't give images that fit the screen exactly. A 1.33 image displayed on a 1.25 monitor needs narrow blank bars at the top and bottom. But this isn't really much of a problem: - If the images must be 4:3, viewing programs like Irfanview can display them with the extra area black so it's not distracting. - If the images must fit the screen exactly, he can crop them to a 5:4 ratio in his image editor. Since the normal camera output is at much higher resolution, the images need to be shrunk for screen display anyway, and adding a cropping step doesn't add much work. Dave |
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Dave Martindale wrote: "T.N.T." writes: It is the manufacturer's fault if it doesn't display anything correctly at 1280x960 res which is the correct aspect ratio for a 4x3 LCD. If 1280x1024 is the native resolution of the LCD then it doesn't have square pixels and will not display nicely anything that requires square pixels. Correct me if I'm wrong. From his description of text looking good at 1280x1024 and bad at 1280x960, we can likely conclude that the panel itself is 1280x1024. However, I'll bet that the pixels are actually square, and the active area of the screen has a 1.25 aspect ratio (5:4), not 1.33 like a classical CRT. If that's true setting the graphics card to 1280x1024 will display digital images correctly, including making circles round. In that case, his only complaint is that the camera doesn't give images that fit the screen exactly. A 1.33 image displayed on a 1.25 monitor needs narrow blank bars at the top and bottom. But this isn't really much of a problem: - If the images must be 4:3, viewing programs like Irfanview can display them with the extra area black so it's not distracting. - If the images must fit the screen exactly, he can crop them to a 5:4 ratio in his image editor. Since the normal camera output is at much higher resolution, the images need to be shrunk for screen display anyway, and adding a cropping step doesn't add much work. Dave |
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