300dpi Camera?

imbsysop wrote:

JWP wrote:

Your camera shoots at 300 dpi and ANY dpi all at the same time.

SIGH !! cameras DO NOT shoot at DPI !! not even PPI .. !

Umm... that's what he was saying... albeit perhaps in a confusing way. Although it did not confuse me. In any case, we need to stop freaking out about DPI because that was NOT the point of the original post. The originally poster (as evidenced by subsiquent posts) knows all about dpi and it's relavance to printing and irrelivance to a camera or computer. He is NOT confused about DPI and pixels and PPI etc. and does NOT required education on the matter. The POINT is that when you bring an image from your camera into Photoshop and open the Image Size dialog box, it's document size (for printing purposed) is always set, for whatever reason, to a resolution of 180dpi. He, and probably others, find it a pain to have to go in and change it all the time. He wants to know if there are any cameras which set the DPI (which is just an EXIF attribute and we all KNOW it has nothing to do with the resolution of the image on screen) to 300. Perhaps there should be an option in the camera menus to set that tag to a custom value if you want your images to come into Photoshop TAGGED as 72 or 300 or whatever dpi you want. And before you all jump to reply, I KNOW that changing the EXIF tag to 72 or 300 would have no effect on the resolution (number of pixels) of my shoots. It would just be a convenience thing so you don't have to always go into Photoshop and change that setting before importing the image into your InDesign or Quark document or whatever you're doing with the image.