Printing from a cropped image sensor

[bisso7]

Hi All,

I've been having a problem lately with printing my photos in terms of getting the entire, uncropped image to print with no borders. Some of my photos I don't leave much room for cropping, thus I like to print them "as is."

Even after I am sure to "uncheck" the box that says something like "fit image to page," the entire photo "as is," still will not print. The top portion of the photo still ends up with a slight border (yes, I've made sure I selected "borderless" in my printing preferences).

I shoot with a Canon T3 (1100 D). I'm just guessing on this one, but is this problem due to the fact that my camera is not a full-frame model??? I know nothing as far as the difference between using a full-frame vs. a cropped sensor, in terms of how each one prints photos.

Thanks in advance....

Jeff

[Manfred M]

Jeff - this has nothing to do with the form factor of your camera and everything to do with that paper size (or at least the height to width ratio) does not match the height to width ratio of your sensor. This is not a new phenomena, but one that existed back in the film days too.

The photographer really has two choices:

1. Photograph in such a way that you leave room to crop off part of the image when printing; or

2. Print the image on the paper so the height to width ratio is preserved and then trim the print to size by cutting off the unprinted parts of the paper.

I guess a third option would be to scale your final image differently in the length and width so it fits the paper, but chances are this will look strange in your final print.

So trying to do what you are doing is not going to give you what you want. The "borderless" option in your print sizes your print size so that a 'correctly sized" image will print slightly larger than the paper size to ensure that there is no unprinted area on the paper.