Along the same line of thought, some few weeks ago I took some photos of our
church with a rather unusual rainbow in the background. Wanting to get in as
much of it as I could, I used the 17mm on the OM camera. Some of our people
wanted a print of it, as of course they were not here when it occured. Here
is a scan of one of the pics that Dwayne's Photo did when they developed the
E100VS for me. It is as sent from them, except for downsizing.
http://pastway.smugmug.com/gallery/1485763#189330018
I don't have the skills to straighten the perspective on the buildings, or
remove the utility pole and wires, but I did play around some with exposure
and saturation, etc. I had a few of the variations printed at Walmart, for
the nice price of 19 cents each, and gave them to one of our folks at church
to look at last Sunday. At that price, I've decided to make a copy or two
for all of our folks, and just include them for free in our church bulletin.
Of course the ones who've already seen the pictures mentioned enlargements.
So I had to explain to them (not the easiest to get across) that standard
enlargements would more or less ruin this picture, as both ends of the
rainbow would be gone. It's harder for folks not into photography more than
point-and-shoot level, to comprehend this. So I told them it could be done
in say, 8"x12", but that would be somewhat higher in cost as it eliminates
Walmart, and that also it would require a more expensive framing option than
what you might grab at Walmart.
Wayne (who would appreciate it if anyone wants to mooosterize the photos, as
I'm not so good at it. I may try later to upload some full size.)
> Hmmm. I hadn't considered the 4/3 format problem with commercial
> printers. And the P&S cameras have the same problem since they're
> almost all 3:4 ratio as well. Interestingly enough, when I mentioned
> this to my son and daughter about their P&S pictures they were totally
> unaware that their photos were being cropped. They obviously don't pay
> much attention to framing.
>
> I see that the E-410 (and presumably all the follow-ons) offer a 2:3
> ratio but I don't know if that helps much if you can't see the framing
> in the viewfinder. Maybe John H can offer a new screen scribing service
> to go along with his rule of thirds scribes on OM screens. Even it you
> didn't take the image in 2:3, if you framed it properly you could run an
> automated cropping tool to control the final print.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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