4/3's printing

duffarama

I've just been to get some photos processed for the first time from my Olympus DSLR and the 2/3 crop has removed some details at the top or bottom of shots, stuff like people's heads and the like, do i need to crop the images myself before printing them off??

Or is there another solution?

jaqian

I find if you use the kiosk and adjust each photo yourself for printing you get better results.

duffarama

ah yes... doing it myself! Someone else did all the work at the machine for me. Can you edit on those things and if so, would it be quicker on my own computer before I get there??

rymus

doing it on your computer wont make any difference... what you have to do individually on the kiosk is to define the crop. You should be able to make individual adjustments via the kiosk before printing the batch.

duffarama

Perfect so, I'll keep this in mind for the next time. Was really looking forward to getting that photo printed, poor headless anonymous skater...

Thanks chaps

Calina

Photobox do a 6x4.5 print. You may want to consider that.

duffarama

I'll check it out, that would be a fine solution right there

jlang

6x4.5 (or 15x11cm) prints are fine, but I haven't seen albums or frames for that size print. I expect they should become available over the next few years.

AnCatDubh

My experience to date moving from point and shoot to the DSLR world has been varied. My current DSLR gives a 4x6 natively - well there does appear to be a couple of percentage point crop but nothing that ever gets in the way. Previous to this my point and shoot had a crop factor that kinda left prints with half heads / legs missing.

Before going to print i'd always run the snaps through some image processing to be sure - this vastly improved the results. Something as basic as picasa has good standard crop sizes 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, etc.. (plus a couple of simple edits if you want to play with it a little). Even with the DSLR which has an implicit 4x6 crop i tend to consider each print and apply a standard crop ratio getting the optimum from the image. (hey - i'd like to think they are optimum!!! LOL). But its highly recommended.

One drawback to be aware of - every edit costs time. i.e. your time - but if the image is worth it, then its worth your time.

Cheers.

AnCatDubh

AnCatDubh wrote:

if the image is worth it, then its worth your time.

wow - just reread this.... hmnnnnnn profound methinks! (note to self - write it down ;o)