Help request

Hi,

I am not very knowledgable in the digital camera field and need some
assistance.

What resolution do I need to set my camera at to acheive a 300 dpi or
equivilent photo.

I have been asked to send a photo to a company for printing. They
want it at 300 dpi and I am not sure how to achieve this.

Thanks in Advance

(Monte) writes:

Hi,

I am not very knowledgable in the digital camera field and need some
assistance.

What resolution do I need to set my camera at to acheive a 300 dpi or
equivilent photo.

I have been asked to send a photo to a company for printing. They
want it at 300 dpi and I am not sure how to achieve this.

First you must answer the question, how many i. Once you have that,
you can multiply the i by the dpi to get the d.

Der d-bone's connected to the i-bone...

B

(Monte) writes:

Hi,

I am not very knowledgable in the digital camera field and need some
assistance.

What resolution do I need to set my camera at to acheive a 300 dpi or
equivilent photo.

I have been asked to send a photo to a company for printing. They
want it at 300 dpi and I am not sure how to achieve this.

First you must answer the question, how many i. Once you have that,
you can multiply the i by the dpi to get the d.

Der d-bone's connected to the i-bone...

B

Bruce Murphy wrote:
(Monte) writes:


Hi,

I am not very knowledgable in the digital camera field and need some
assistance.

What resolution do I need to set my camera at to acheive a 300 dpi or
equivilent photo.

I have been asked to send a photo to a company for printing. They
want it at 300 dpi and I am not sure how to achieve this.


First you must answer the question, how many i. Once you have that,
you can multiply the i by the dpi to get the d.

Der d-bone's connected to the i-bone...

B

LOL. What he is saying is: Depends on the image size you are looking for.
So for a 4x6 you would need at least (6*300=1800).

Andre

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Bruce Murphy wrote:
(Monte) writes:


Hi,

I am not very knowledgable in the digital camera field and need some
assistance.

What resolution do I need to set my camera at to acheive a 300 dpi or
equivilent photo.

I have been asked to send a photo to a company for printing. They
want it at 300 dpi and I am not sure how to achieve this.


First you must answer the question, how many i. Once you have that,
you can multiply the i by the dpi to get the d.

Der d-bone's connected to the i-bone...

B

LOL. What he is saying is: Depends on the image size you are looking for.
So for a 4x6 you would need at least (6*300=1800).

Andre

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http://www.aguntherphotography.com

Monte wrote:
Hi,

I am not very knowledgable in the digital camera field and need some
assistance.

What resolution do I need to set my camera at to acheive a 300 dpi or
equivilent photo.

I have been asked to send a photo to a company for printing. They
want it at 300 dpi and I am not sure how to achieve this.

Thanks in Advance

Generally I would always shot full resolution and rather buy one more
storage card. Later you got more degrees of freedom (e.g. cropping,
enhancing, large prints ...).
Whatever the camera can put out you should use.

Andre

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http://www.aguntherphotography.com

Monte wrote:
Hi,

I am not very knowledgable in the digital camera field and need some
assistance.

What resolution do I need to set my camera at to acheive a 300 dpi or
equivilent photo.

I have been asked to send a photo to a company for printing. They
want it at 300 dpi and I am not sure how to achieve this.

Thanks in Advance

Generally I would always shot full resolution and rather buy one more
storage card. Later you got more degrees of freedom (e.g. cropping,
enhancing, large prints ...).
Whatever the camera can put out you should use.

Andre

--
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http://www.aguntherphotography.com

"Monte" wrote in message
What resolution do I need to set my camera at to acheive a 300 dpi or
equivilent photo.

Answer depends on TWO requirements.

Requirement 1 (given): They want 300 dots per inch (dpi).

Requirement 2 is not given (and you must ask your company for this detail):
what is the actual physical size of the printed image they want? Suppose
they say 6" by 4 ".

So on the 6" length side, they want 6*300 = 1800 dots. On the 4" width side
they want 4*300= 1200 dots.

Hence your camera needs to provide them at least 1800*1200 pixels, i.e. 1.92
MPixels. So any resolution of 2MPixels or more will satisfy their
requirement.

You should now be able to work this out for any image size.

Regards - JW

In message , Monte
writes
Hi,

I am not very knowledgable in the digital camera field and need some
assistance.

What resolution do I need to set my camera at to acheive a 300 dpi or
equivilent photo.

I have been asked to send a photo to a company for printing. They
want it at 300 dpi and I am not sure how to achieve this.

I'm very surprised that a printing company should ask for "360 dpi" for
two reasons.

First of all the pixel size must be dpi x image size in inches.

Secondly, printers use 1280 dpi or higher for their color seps/plates.
--
Tony Morgan
http://www.camcord.info

In message , Monte
writes
Hi,

I am not very knowledgable in the digital camera field and need some
assistance.

What resolution do I need to set my camera at to acheive a 300 dpi or
equivilent photo.

I have been asked to send a photo to a company for printing. They
want it at 300 dpi and I am not sure how to achieve this.

I'm very surprised that a printing company should ask for "360 dpi" for
two reasons.

First of all the pixel size must be dpi x image size in inches.

Secondly, printers use 1280 dpi or higher for their color seps/plates.
--
Tony Morgan
http://www.camcord.info