I wonder if anyone can answer a question for me. I treated myself to an xmas present and now have a new camera. The old one shot images that were 1200x1600 and when opened in PSP showed a res. of 300dpi. The new one shoots images that are 2304 x 3072 but the res. shows as 180dpi. If i change the res in PSP to 300dpi which is what I thought was required for printing the image size grows to 3840 x 5120. ( I was thinking it would get smaller ). I have checked res. on the camera settings and it is set to 'fine' which is the highest setting apart from 'super fine', there are a couple of lower settings. I thought I had to have at least 300dpi to get good prints, so will my images at 180dpi be of a lesser quality? If that is so does anyone know how I get 300dpi shots ? These are all JPEG files downloaded from camera. It does do RAW files but I havn't got a clue about those, all sounds bit advanced till I learn how to use the camera. I have read in PSP manual it does work on RAW files from this camera but I would rather save that learning curve for a later date. Thanks for any help :) Richard.

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html

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I think this link may help you

The Truth is Out There

Yes - that seems to be similar situation. Thx LP. So for printing I need 300dpi and should change it in PSP with resampling unchecked. I don't have a very good printer, so for now it is sending them to processors and don't want to send them wrong stuff.

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html

Ah think I have it now. The print size on the original image was 12x18. If I resize the print size with resampling unchecked then the dpi increases to over 300 @ 10x8, and higher for smaller prints.

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html

If you uncheck the resample box and change the DPI to 300, instead of changing the print size that will give you an exact print size. The confusion between image resolution (dimensions) and image resolution (DPI) is a common one. Having a DPI of 300 will give you print quality prints (I think that makes sense) When you get round to learning about RAW this will help you, as this may (depending on your camera and software used for RAW conversion) put out 240 or greater DPI. There are others here that can explain it better than I can. LP

The Truth is Out There

Yes I see what you mean. I will have to do some reading up on this (among other things). I missed the earlier thread. Thanks for all your help. :) Richard.

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html

If anyone is struggling with this I found this link really helpful http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understanding-series/und_resolution.shtml

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html