Why Your Pictures End up Cropped
Having one of the latest and best digital camera’s money can buy, one would surely have the annoying experience of having their pictures cropped, a missing head there, a half body there, why. Well, having the best camera and the latest ones assures that you get more pixels onto each image. The term mega-pixel means millions of pixels per image meaning the number of picture units. Imagine a 1 mega-pixel image to have 1 million dots of colors that makes up the whole image. Going further back, if you have ever been curious of the way your LCD screen or CRT TV works, get a magnifying glass and you get down to the individual pixels that makes up each and every image. the term RGB means the whole color spectrum is represented by red-green-blue, dots, varying their intensity gives you the many colors of the spectrum. All that comes down to millions of pixels or image units, the higher the number the finer the image.
The finer the image also means however much you zoom, you still have detail opposed to old cameras which blurred out to some extent when you zoom in. The development process does crop the image for they tend to revolve on the limitations of the amount of pixels they can fit onto one page. For example, a 5-R industry standard print can take something at the figure of 4-mega pixels but above that, they have to crop it a bit to fit the frame of the developing paper. If you do not specify which areas to crop, this is done by the developing machine without prejudice leaving you with a few missing heads, feet and more that should not have been cropped off.