Newbie to the group - XT resolution question

Hello everyone! I just joined this group and recently purchased a
Canon Rebel XT (w/18-55 lens kit ). I've taken a bunch of photos with
the XT (all in auto mode as I'm still learning) and I love it so far.
My question is when I upload my pix to my pc, the resolution for all my
pix is 72dpi. I've changed the camera's quality setting from small to
large and normal to fine but it's still 72. My old pocket camera
produced 230dpi ... what am I missing here/doing wrong? Any help is
greatly appreciated. Thanks, Karyn

 

you missed the fact that dpi is totaly irrelevant in digital cameras,
thus vendors put there whatever they fancy.


B.

 

Like has been said, dpi is not relevant to what you print. But if you look
at that window in Pshop where you saw the 72dpi (I'm guessing that is where
you saw it, under "Image Size") look at the dimension of the image. Click
off the box that says "resample," change the smallest dimension to 8, and,
viola! you have an 8x12 image at 292dpi. Happier, now? Your old camera may
have had a smaller dimension on the image, and showed a larger dpi number.
It's just a way to say keep you guessing...

 

Hi Karyn,

Just ignore the figure, and make sure that you've set the camera for the
highest-quality JPEG (if you're after the highest-quality images) (until you
get into RAW format).

By the way - we haven't seen you group membership form or fee yet - you can
send it to ...

(just kidding)

 

To add to what the other's are saying usually you can set preferences in
what ever application you are using to edit your photos to default to 180dpi
or 300dpi or what have you. It's not something the camera will do.

Greg

 

Well, you both miss the fact that there are no "d"s until you print.

IAE, the ppi it is imported as is only inconvenient in those
applications that want to display it at that setting. The overall number
of pixels is what counts.

 

You guys are awesome! Thanks a bunch!! My form & fee are in the
*mail* ...

 

C'mon, you guys! You know better: it's ppi, not dpi. and it's "others"
fwiw....

 

It's dpi, we're talking about what the image will look like printed.

Mea culpa.

Greg