 Gray Tait |
producing 4 x 6 prints I have a Nikon D70. I have taken shots of school classes. On the computer screen they look great but when I print them out in 4 x 6, they are cropped badly, with head etc missing. Is there any way of setting the camera to take a 4 x 6 or does it have to be done later in Photoshop. Taking the card to the photo lab and printing out there, they still get cropped.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
making them with borders?
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Gray Tait |
No borders. I have a Picturmate 500 printer and that crops them in the same way as the commercial ones in the photolab up town. Is it something to do with ratio? I am not that clued up with digital photography.
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anonymous |
Are you printing to the edge of the page? ie, boarders? I realised when I print boarderless, that it crops quite a lot off my photos, so either print with a boarder, or you will have to create a new file 4x6 and then paste your photo into it with enough room around the photo so that when you print boarderless, it only crops the white bit off and the photo will end up boarderless but not cropped.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Borderless, printers always print slightly larger so part of anything on the outer edges gets cropped. You want complete borderless without that, print on 5x7 paper. If you decide to print with borders, crop to a size based on what width border you want. A 4x6 image dosen't proportionently shrink down to fit on a 4x6 paper with even borders. Crop to something like 3.7x5.7 Try it, resize a 4x6 just on the short side and the long side won't be under 6 inches by the same amount.
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Pete H |
The problem here is really NOT a cropping problem, but a question of aspect ratio. If you are shooting the D-70 at it's full resolution mode..i.e 3008x2000 pixels, the average developers at drug stores etc, can not print edge to edge. The 3008x2000 does not equate to any standard 4x6...5x7 etc... A pro lab CAN print these almost edge to edge. There is always some cropping when enlarging an image, but these 1 hr places do not have the equip to avoid the cropping. Hope this helps a little.
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Gray Tait |
Thanaks Everyone. Pete, you are on the nail. I had done some more research as well and found this to be the problem. I have no figures I have to reset the camera to the 3:2 aspect when taking those type of photos.
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Pete H |
Just a PS Gray; Why Nikon chose this as a standard format, I have no idea, but it is really a pain in the butt! I think it relates to the pre-existing size of the Sony CCD chip. I've learned to leave enough headroom when I shoot a portrait, so if I do go to a local 1 hr place, knowing it will crop, the pic turns out OK. Not scientific, but it does work.
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