Interesting article

mopar_man

mopar_man

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http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4201645.html

Kinda of scarey that our era may be a black hole in history. Got me to thinking about what I have for physical "stuff" around here. Looking through my gallery of digital photos, I have over 4400 in an online gallery a friend of mine hosts. God knows how many I have on disc (some I can't access since the DVD with most of photos on it doesn't work now that I formatted my HD :mad: ). The photos are the main things I'd like to get developed since there isn't much for documents that I really need to have saved. I may look into those gold Memorex DVDs as well ($20 for 5 isn't too bad if they last longer than I will).

That leads me to another thing. I've never printed digital prints before. If they are an odd size (not something that fits a 4x6" or 5x7"), does the picture get stretched, shrunk or cropped to fit the print size? Or do they print what the print actually is? :huh:
 
im not positive.... but, i think the digital camera's are setup to use the standard size.... i could be wrong.... wouldnt be the first or last time that happened....
 
MoparGodSpawn said:
im not positive.... but, i think the digital camera's are setup to use the standard size.... i could be wrong.... wouldnt be the first or last time that happened....
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Uneditted pictures straight from the camera, yeah. I'm meaning the ones that have been cropped or editted otherwise to be an odd size.
 
All of the above can happen.

Which one really depends on the proportions of the original. If it scales up or down to fit, that's probably a good option.
However, sometimes it might be better to crop it down to just the main subject of the photograph. If the resolution is high, you may be able to resize it to a larger format.

Most often, you do not want to stretch or shrink the image to fit because that usually leads to some distortion - think about the beginning of an old spaghetti western movie where Clint Eastwoof looked 40 feet tall.
 
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