Printing Digital Images

Digital vs 35mm film Print Sizes

An important consideration when printing your digital images is to match the height to width ratio (or "aspect ratio") of your digital camera. Traditional 35mm film (36 x 24mm) has an aspect ratio of 3:2 (one and a half times wider than its height) which prints proportionately onto 4" x 6" photographic paper.
Digital cameras have a 4:3 aspect ratio, this means that images printed on 4"x 6" paper (3:2 aspect ratio) will have the top or bottom of the picture cropped or blank vertical strips down each side.

At Snappy Snaps Ashford we offer all the options, we can print your digital images to fit the traditional 4" x 6" size which fits the popular sizes for albums and frames but your picture will be cropped to fit or we can leave blank vertical strips. If you choose the Digital print size of 4" x 5.3" you will get the complete image you captured through your digital camera.

Getting more technical

How to establish the aspect ratio of your digital camera. If for example you have a 3 Megapixel camera with a resolution of 2048 x 1536, you divide the larger number by the smaller, so 2048 ÷ 1536 = 1.33 which will print proportionately onto a 4" x 5.3" paper size (5.3 ÷ 4 = 1.33) or 4:3 aspect ratio. If your calculation comes to 1.5 you can print to a 4" x 6" paper size. (e.g. 6 ÷ 4 = 1.5 or 3:2 aspect ratio).

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