Filling Screen Viewing Pictures

Hi, hope someone can shed some light onto this.
I am trying out a 22" wide screen Monitor using native resolution 1680 x 1050 in VGA mode but when viewing pictures from my digital camera I can not remove the bands on the left and right side of the screen like it is on lower resolutions. I think the highest one was 1280 x 1024.
If I use settings to fill screen than I have to scroll up and down to see the full pic.

 

hawk22, My question is , are you just vewing the Digital camera Photos, or are you trying to use them for the monitor Background?
If your just vewing them then the Digital Camera will have to have the same setting as the monitor. My digital is adjustable, for example my Canon has a max value of 3024X2304.

HTH

 

Hi irdreed, nice to hear from you, how have you been.
Viewing photos slide shows and so on, not background or Wallpaper, this is a 8 bit Panel and is super sharp.

 

I'm not too bad now. Had Hip replacement surgery earlier in the year, and getting around pretty good now.....thank goodness no more Pain!

I think maybe Tony T answered the problem.

 

trying to have a photo slide show using Picasa or the like on a full screen without black bands on the left ond right hand side of the screen.

 

The problem is as Tony stated.

Your photos are 1280 pixels wide. Your monitor is 1680 pixels wide. 400 pixels wider than your pictures. So, if the picture is centered on the screen, there's going to be 200 unused (black) pixels on each side of it. The only ways around it are to set your camera to take pictures at a higher resolution or possibly there's an option in Picasso to stretch them to fill. I know Irfanview will do that. However, when you start enlarging them from their original size, the quality will go down.

 

Yes Zander I did try in Irfanview and you can clearly notice the lower quality of the picture I did not like it at all. My digi camera is only 3.2 Mega Pixels and I guess that does not help.
I was just wondering because when I plug the camera into my wide screen TV it fills the screen and they look ok.

 

Zander to change the subject slightly to a matter of DVI v VGA this Monitor as a stated I have set up on VGA and my Mouse curser runs off the screen on the right hand side and the bottom of the screen, is this a geometry difference between DVI and VGA.