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300dpi Camera?

Started Mar 8, 2005 | Discussions thread
imbsysop Veteran Member • Posts: 4,963
Re: 300dpi Camera?

takeo wrote:

Cameras have NO dpi, NEVER ... the figure that manufacturer do bake
into their Firmware are meaningless at the level of the picture and
as long as the value is not used for printing ...

Yes... it is meaningless except for output (i.e. printing)... which
is why I suggested that perhaps the arbirary use of 180 dpi is
meerly a marketting gimmick since using 180 dpi to print an image
would result in larger output dimensions than using 300 dpi for
printing the same image (assuming the number of pixels is constant).

unfortunately 180 PPI is a bit low to produce good (photo)quality prints ... but it is a funny concept as old versions of Adobe Photoshop used a default value of 72DPI ( yes they erroneously called it DPI)
so maybe camera manufacturers should just leave it out alltogether ..

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