300dpi Camera?

mamallama

imbsysop wrote:

takeo wrote:

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.

I'm sorry but that's because the starting concept of Adobe is FUBAR
in this case .. it is "slavely" just reading the X(Y) resolution
set in the camera (180/1 def unit=inch -> 180PPI) and uses that as
an arbitrary PPI setting .. In my G6 that boils down to 180 PPI, in
my older HP912 it's even worse as it is set to 72 PPI.
Other processing programs do not suffer from this docile behaviour
.. Paintshop Pro allows a default setting of any value one wishes,
so mine is set to 300PPI by default. Any picture I read in
consequently defaults to 300 PPI ... It's like using computers, the
fact that one uses "digital" is no excuse for not thinking anymore

Changing it in the default EXIF would be nice but it might be only
the most usefull for Adobe users ?