Digital cameras forum: camera not matching 4 x 6 photo tray

If you lay a square piece of paper on a rectangular piece of paper, it will not match.

Your camera has an aspect ratio of 3 x 4.
4 x 6 paper has an aspect ratio of 2 x 3.

(4 x 6 paper was made to fit 35mm film aspect ratio)

If you proportionally expand your photo to be 6 inches wide, it will be 4.5 inches tall.

To make it print edge to edge on 4 x 6 paper, you will have to eliminate .25 inch from the top and bottom. You do this with software using a "crop" command.

And as eaadams previously said;
you need a printer that can print edge to edge.

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or you can print them at 4.5 x 6 on larger paper and then trim the paper to fit the image.

Many camera do have a 2:3 format option which fits 4 x 6 paper exactly.

You could also print the photos at 4 x 5.33 and trim off the one end to fit.

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Photo Formats:

This is a problem that has been around for over 50 years.

You hear about 5 x 7 and 8 x 10 photos.
No available camera will fit those formats without cropping.

Those sizes originated about the year 1910 when cameras actually use negatives of those sizes.

About 1950 almost all of the old format cameras had disappeared but the 5 x 7 and 8 x 10 paper is still with us. The last cameras were the "press" cameras used by news reporters. In the old Superman comics, Jimmy Olson carried a "press" camera. A very large camera to carry around. But since the negatives were so huge, they produced excellent photos.

One of these days, there will probably be 4.5 x 6 paper available.

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a 4x6. However, that's a very small size, so I don't put a large amount of value on it. The new 30D undoubtedly has the same specs, and the Rebel may also share them.