ok am i missing something here...

[L.Culley]

I have the EOS 40D, and im usind DSCL for printing.
The last set of pictures I ordered came back fine but had clearly lost some of the image, so I figured the ratio must have been wrong when I sent them through, Im now about to order some more through them and im looking more closely at the image size... what I am finding is that if I want a print in 10x8 im going to lose a hell of a lot of the picture... can I adjust my camera settings to take a different ratio?
And what can I do to alter my current set??????
advice would be greatly appreciated.

Leon

 

[Yv]

your ratio is set by your sensor and can't be changed [well it cant on a nikon and not that I have heard of any canon]- its usually roughly 3 x 2 [so 12in x 8in for example] but that varies I think on different bodies depending on the sensor - so either change your standard print size to that same ratio, or change your shooting to accomodate the fact you will have to lose some of the image. You can then crop them pre-sending so you know that you will get back the image you want.

 

[RobertP]

I use Jpegcrops to losslessly crop before uploading to a printing site. You have no choice but to lose some of the picture to get the aspect ratio of the paper size but at least if you do it yourself you know what you are getting. Jpeg crops just saves the bit of the image you want to new file - no resizing or quality change.

 

[Yv]

I use Jpegcrops to losslessly crop before uploading to a printing site. You have no choice but to lose some of the picture to get the aspect ratio of the paper size but at least if you do it yourself you know what you are getting. Jpeg crops just saves the bit of the image you want to new file - no resizing or quality change.

another vote for this, I used to use it a lot when doing a lot of prints.

 

[EdBray]

your ratio is set by your sensor and can't be changed [well it cant on a nikon and not that I have heard of any canon]- its usually roughly 3 x 2 [so 12in x 8in for example] but that varies I think on different bodies depending on the sensor - so either change your standard print size to that same ratio, or change your shooting to accomodate the fact you will have to lose some of the image. You can then crop them pre-sending so you know that you will get back the image you want.

Actually that is incorrect, a Nikon d3 has the option to shoot in 5:4 ratio which will give a perfect 10x8

 

[L.Culley]

cheers for your help guys

 

[Yv]

Actually that is incorrect, a Nikon d3 has the option to shoot in 5:4 ratio which will give a perfect 10x8

you think I have ever done more than look less than longingly at that monster?

Thanks Ed, no I didnt know that, you learn something new everyday, but as a general rule at the moment, you can't on the majority of dslr's I think.

 

[EdBray]

you think I have ever done more than look less than longingly at that monster?

Thanks Ed, no I didnt know that, you learn something new everyday, but as a general rule at the moment, you can't on the majority of dslr's I think.

Yep, only on the D3 and D3s

 

[tiler65]

If you use photoshop CS versions you can resize your crops to ratios....so that when you use the rectangular marquee tool, you can change the style from normal (what you camera shoots in) to fixed ratio (change it to 3:2, 5:4 etc for printsizes) or fixed size (maybe for specific items that require a certain amount of size/pixels), then when you drag the marquee tool over your photo, the crop will auto matically adjust to what info you input.

Hope I explained that OK.