4xD Photo Pages

sterlingice · 05-11-2008, 05:58 PM

I've started seeing lots of places offer 4xD (or 4x5.3") photo developing. For those unfamiliar, basically, a lot of digital cameras don't use a 2:3 ratio (4x6). So, basically, you get a little bit of your top and bottom of your photo cropped- think in terms of letterbox movies that instead of adding black at the bottom and top, they do the full width but cut off parts of the top and bottom to make it fit.

I tend to get my pictures done at Walgreens and they've started doing it and I'm quite happy with the results. However, now I'm stuck with trying to find 4xD photo pages and I have had absolutely no luck online. Currently, the best thing I can come up with is just to put them in the 4x6 pages but when you put photos back-to-back, you'll likely get some ugly white behind each picture from the photos sliding around within the sheets.

So, anyone know where to get 4xD photo pages online or in stores?

SI

sterlingice · 05-12-2008, 08:51 PM

This is not looking good for our intrepid album maker (i.e. me)

SI

oliegirl · 05-12-2008, 09:39 PM

I have no idea but recently ran into this issue...we got our wedding pictures back, the photographer is one of my best friends and she gave us the disc, anyway, in trying to get them printed, I am running into some cropping issues. I'm not having so much trouble with getting them in albums (I scrapbook so I kind of make my own designs/pages), but with frames...it's hard to get them to fit right in a frame

I gave my mom a frame that holds 4 pictures for Mothers Day and ended up having to do a lot of careful cutting to get them to fit right...probably not something that will be solved soon but still an annoying problem.

The only thing I can offer for an album, is to use the "photo corners" and mount them on the pages yourself in a plain page album. They are better than the "magnetic" albums anyway as they are archival, and they come in a 12x12 format so you can arrange them how you want and write notes, whatever on the pages if you want.

sterlingice · 05-12-2008, 11:35 PM

These are what I typically use. They work great for 4x6 but not so great for the 4xD:

SI

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05-12-2008, 11:35 PM	#4
sterlingice Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Back in Houston!	These are what I typically use. They work great for 4x6 but not so great for the 4xD: SI __________________ Houston Hippopotami, III.3: 20th Anniversary Thread - All former HT players are encouraged to check it out! Janos: "Only America could produce an imbecile of your caliber!" Freakazoid: "That's because we make lots of things better than other people!"

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