filling the screen in slideshow

[singapore sling]

Hope someone can help, I have been using a casi digital camera and shooting
in 6mp, when I transfer and play back on my screen the whol of the monitor is
filled up with the picture.

I have just upgraded to a Nikon SLR 6mp camera, and when I play back in
slideshow I have a black top & bottom bar on the screen, the sttings are set
to fill the screen in properties.

Casio & Nikon pictures in the same folder will apear differently in slideshow.

This is not a major problem, but I am just intrigued why this is happening,
I know it must be a simple answer.

 

[Michael J. Mahon]

Hope someone can help, I have been using a casi digital camera and shooting
in 6mp, when I transfer and play back on my screen the whol of the monitor is
filled up with the picture.

I have just upgraded to a Nikon SLR 6mp camera, and when I play back in
slideshow I have a black top & bottom bar on the screen, the sttings are set
to fill the screen in properties.

Casio & Nikon pictures in the same folder will apear differently in slideshow.

This is not a major problem, but I am just intrigued why this is happening,
I know it must be a simple answer.

Most likely, the aspect ratio of the two cameras is set differently.

For example, your Casio is apparently set for 4:3 aspect ratio (4
horizontal pixels for every 3 vertical pixels), while your Nikon may
be set for 3:2 aspect ratio.

4:3 is the old standard TV screen ratio, computer monitor ratio, and
non-widescreen movie ratio--as a result, most camera sensors also use
a "native" 4"3 ratio.

But because of the increasing prevalence of 3:2 (for 6"x4" prints) and
16:9 (for HDTV), many cameras now have options to set these aspect
ratios.

If you want all your pictures to be 4:3, check the setup menus on your
Nikon for a 4:3 format--usually the largest in terms of pixels.

If all your menus tell you is horizontal and vertical pixels, just
divide the horizontal pixels by the vertical pixels to get the ratio:
1.333 = 4:3, 1.5 = 3:2, 1.777 = 16:9, and so forth.

For the pictures you have already taken, you can crop the wider pictures
to a 4:3 aspect ratio and they will fill the 4:3 computer/TV screen.

-michael

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[singapore sling]

Michael, thank you for taking the time to reply, I have lked at both cameras,
the nikon is set to mp Large picture, while the Casio is set to 4mp Normal,
the strange thing is I was sure that the Nikon used to show full
screnpictures in slidshow, but I could be imagining that!!! But many thanks
for your answer.

 

[Michael J. Mahon]

Michael, thank you for taking the time to reply, I have lked at both cameras,
the nikon is set to mp Large picture, while the Casio is set to 4mp Normal,
the strange thing is I was sure that the Nikon used to show full
screnpictures in slidshow, but I could be imagining that!!! But many thanks
for your answer.

You didn't mention the model of the Nikon DSLR, but I note that the
6.1Mp D50 has a sensor with a native resolution of 3008x2000, or
an aspect ratio of about 3:2--the traditional aspect ratio of 35mm
film cameras. Perhaps this is the "DSLR standard" aspect ratio.

If you have that camera, then it looks like 4:3 aspect ratios may only
be available by cropping, unless the camera supports in-camera cropping.

-michael

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-michael

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Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/

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[singapore sling]

Hi Michael, it is a Nikon D40, excuse my ignorance, but would cropping in
camera make the pictures smaller?

 

[Michael J. Mahon]

Hi Michael, it is a Nikon D40, excuse my ignorance, but would cropping in
camera make the pictures smaller?

Yes, it would, by cropping off a bit of each side. This would
reduce the resolution of photos from 3008x2000 to about 2666x2000,
about 13% fewer pixels.

The D40, however, does not offer a 4:3 shooting mode, so you'll
either need to crop manually after shooting (some programs may
do this in "batch" mode), or, probably better, find a photo
display program that has a "screen-filling" mode that will
automatically enlarge the images to fill the screen, cropping
the sides (for viewing only) automatically.

If you plan to use the camera for shots that will be regularly
shown in 4:3, you will need to frame pictures to allow for the
trimming of the sides, though.

It's interesting that none of the "usual" photo printing sizes
(6x4, 5x7, 8x10, etc.) correspond to a 4:3 ratio, and only the
6x4 matches 3:2. So most prints will involve cropping the image.

Of course, a DVD slide show will typically be 4:3, and "standard"
(as opposed to "wide screen") computer displays will, too.

-michael

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-michael

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