First of all, was the program that was sending the images to the
projector set to "fit to screen" or show full size images? Showing
full size images would have cropped anything larger than the monitor
resolution of the device sending the images to the projector. If the
program was set to "fit to screen" than the projector was set
incorrectly, but I suspect it was the first problem.
The most common resolution of digital projectors is 1024x768 but in
the past year or two, higher resolution projectors have become
available. Is it possible the person running the slide show was using
a wide screen laptop and the height was lower than the resolution of
the projector? Fit to screen would have solved that problem. Not
knowing what software they were using, I recommend using ACDSee as an
image viewing program. It defaults to fit to screen. And the aspect
ratio of the projector needs to be set to match the laptop aspect ratio.
But the biggest problem was that the equipment wasn't tested in
advance to make sure everything worked as it should.
Larry
>I'm sure someone on the forum can address this issue, most likely Larry.
>
>Last evening I had images being judged in a competition and the projector
>cropped off 15% or more of the images severely impacting my images.
>I noticed some other entrants' horizontal images were cropped quite a
>bit on the right side so perhaps mine was even cropped on the right too.
>I didn't notice that since I was more concerned with my vertical image.
>
>I've posted a comparison of what was projected on the screen based on
>my recollection, and beside it is the original image as transmitted to
>them. The link to it is below. You'll notice the cropping makes it a very
>clumsy image without the bottom of the chair and the floor with its
>reflections showing. This cropped image scored very poorly by the
>judges and I believe it was a much better image than the score it got.
>
>_http://www.pbase.com/carlcrumley/image/132386969_
>(http://www.pbase.com/carlcrumley/image/132386969)
>
>I submitted my images sized in compliance with their specification of
>1920 pixels on the longest side. The explanation from the guy running
>the laptop and projector was that there is a mismatch between the two
>that causes the problem and there's nothing that can be done about it.
>
>I've stated to the organization that this problem must be corrected or
>the competition will come down to which photographs are composed in
>such as way as to be relatively unaffected by the cropping.
>
>Any ideas what's wrong? Is it a hardware issue, software issue or just
>operator error?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Carl (Pittsford, NY)
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