Need suggestion on camera for publishing magazine articles

sandy wrote:
I'm a newbie writer who would love to have some magazine articles
published. I was speaking with a publisher at a recent Writer's
Workshop and he asked me to, along with my article, submit photos of a
minimum 300 dpi at the published size (bigger the file, the better).

I do have several cameras but they are all older and of minimal
quality. My digital camera is just over 3 megapixels and I'm guessing
that it is entirely inadequate.

I'd love to get a new, higher resolution digital camera for this
purpose but have no clue as to what I should get or even if a digital
camera is the way to go. I also have not yet figured out how dpi and
megapixels relate to each other.

I'd appreciate your thoughts and suggestions including specific
cameras to consider.

Thanks for your help.

Your 3MP camera will produce images roughly 2000x1500 pixels. Going by
the publishers request for 300 dpi in the publication, that translates
to a published image of 6.66"x5". If that's too small for your articles,
then you need a better camera
Of course those dimensions are the maximum, and any cropping will reduce it.