Printing Wide Angle Photos

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Chris J - 12 Feb 2007 22:02 GMT

Hello all:
You've been a help in the past w/my questions. So, I'm back with
another.

I JUST ordered the canon wide angel 10-22 lens. My question relates
to printing photos I take using the new lens. I print in photoshop 7
and I know that when I print now using my Canon 28-135 lens I wind up
having to crop the photo thereby losing part of the image.

Please pardon my ignorance having not printed anything with the new
lens yet, but won't the same thing happen when I print something w/the
10-22 lens, only to a far greater extent?

Is there anyway to avoid losing part of the image when printing,
either w/the 28-135 lens or the 10-22 lens?

Thanks in advance.
Chris
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Mark² - 12 Feb 2007 22:15 GMT

> Hello all:
> You've been a help in the past w/my questions. So, I'm back with
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> Thanks in advance.
> Chris

I've never heard that question asked before...
Everyone starts somewhere, I guess...

The lens used has no relation whatsoever to the aspect ratio (relative
dimensions) of the image produced. You are not required to crop your photo
prints at all, so long as you select a print size that is the same
width/height ratio as the 3:2 image sixe your camera records.

4x6, 8x12, 12x18, etc. will print with no cropping at all, and just like any
other print size...the image ratio won't change simply because you put
another lens on your camera.

The following images were shot using a variety of focal lenths, but look at
their ratio:
http://www.pbase.com/markuson/landscapes
All images have the exact same aspect ratio except for the panoramas, of
course), and will print the same way regardless of which lens I used.

M²

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G.T. - 12 Feb 2007 22:17 GMT

> Hello all:
> You've been a help in the past w/my questions. So, I'm back with
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> and I know that when I print now using my Canon 28-135 lens I wind up
> having to crop the photo thereby losing part of the image.

Why?

> Please pardon my ignorance having not printed anything with the new
> lens yet, but won't the same thing happen when I print something w/the
> 10-22 lens, only to a far greater extent?

Why would it in the first place? Are you talking about composition or
printing?

> Is there anyway to avoid losing part of the image when printing,
> either w/the 28-135 lens or the 10-22 lens?

The focal length of a lens and printing the final image have little to do
with each other. It sounds like you either need to figure out how to print
from Photoshop or you need to compose your photos better to minimize the
need for cropping.

Greg

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Paul Furman - 12 Feb 2007 22:26 GMT

> ...Are you talking about composition or printing?

The only difference is if you cropped heavily to one corner, the
perspective could be odd/unnatural with a super-wide. I never really had
occasion to notice this at 12mm myself.

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G.T. - 12 Feb 2007 22:22 GMT

> Hello all:
> You've been a help in the past w/my questions. So, I'm back with
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
> Is there anyway to avoid losing part of the image when printing,
> either w/the 28-135 lens or the 10-22 lens?

PS To not lose pixels around the edge of the image when doing borderless
printing on my Epson P2200 on OS X I have to make the image slightly smaller
than the paper in order for it to not get cropped a little around the edges.
This is because of a crappy print driver that slightly resizes bigger, it's
not because of the focal length of my lens.

Greg

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C J Campbell - 12 Feb 2007 22:24 GMT

> Please pardon my ignorance having not printed anything with the new
> lens yet, but won't the same thing happen when I print something w/the
> 10-22 lens, only to a far greater extent?

No. You lose the same amount of the picture when you print. Your pictures
still have the same aspect ratio no matter what lens you are using (barring
some special purpose lens, of course).

If you want to print without losing any of the picture, you will probably
have large white bands at top and bottom if you print on standard photo
papers. No problem; just trim them off. Somewhere in your printing software
there is probably an option to fit the picture to the page. In Photoshop you
would check the box "Scale to fit media." This sizes the picture so that all
of it fits on the page instead of cropping it.

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G.T. - 12 Feb 2007 22:30 GMT

>> Please pardon my ignorance having not printed anything with the new
>> lens yet, but won't the same thing happen when I print something w/the
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> (barring
> some special purpose lens, of course).

Interesting. I didn't even think that he was talking about aspect ratio.
Still, that varies by paper size and sensor size, not focal length.

Greg

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