Digital Camera Advice

[eenywifemum]

Does anyone have advice on ratio?

My fairly recently bought cheapie takes images in a ratio other than 4 x 6.
(2048 x 1536 pixels currently and all other resolutions are in the same ratio)

Is this kind of a standard thing?
Or are there cameras where you can choose the image ratio?

I ask because it seems a pain in the backside to keep cropping and lose some of the image when printing to 4 x 6 for photo albums.

The only other option is to squish the images (like a whide screen TV does) to ensure that everything on the image is included for prinitng.

HELP!!!!

On photobox.co.uk you can also choose 4 X 6.5 and a few other 'tweaked' sizes which might help you. Their software is quite clever so it displays red crop lines so you can v. easily check exactly what is, and what is not going to be printed IYSWIM.

It is very common to get a non-100% pixel accurate 6X4 crop. Certainly my Canon DSLR does this.

So it's common for digital cameras to crop the image then?

I'm assuming most grab an image which is closer to screen ratio than standard 'photo' dimensions?

I meant to say - the initial question was mine, but I posted it under Eeny's ID (my DW).

I also meant to say that I am able to 'tweak' the images on our photo software, and squish the image, or crop it, but just wondered if there are cameras out there which snap the original picture in the 2:3-ish ratio?

It all depends on the sensor size they build into the camera; most sensors (particularly in non-pro digitals) are NOT full frame (ie the size of a 35mm negative IYSWIM (IIRC that is 24 X 36mm ???)... they are approximately in this ration, but rarely exactly... as a result prints are often a smidge out in one direction or ther other. The cameras don't actually tend to crop, they use all of the (expensive) sensor to capture the image. I have noticed reading specs though that some do build in 'spare rows' to allow for use of a cheaper / poor lens (far corners are harder to capture cleanly without optical imperfections).

Well, that's my basic understanding. dpreview.com might help with 'proper info'.

Thanks for the advice!

It would appear that this digital world has moved away from the the traditional size and shape.

Boo Hoo...........