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Canon EOS 700D (T5i) Producing 72 dpi images

Started Sep 30, 2014 | Questions thread
tr573 Senior Member • Posts: 1,329
Re: Canon EOS 700D (T5i) Producing 72 dpi images
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cgarzi wrote:

Our Canon EOS 700D (T5i) camera has been producing images with a dpi of 72, when we obviously need 300 dpi for our print products.

We've read the user manual and played around with all the settings (and we have some experienced photographers in the office), and no one can figure it out. Can anyone provide some assistance? We do not want to shoot raw.

Thanks,

Caitlin

The DPI setting on the file itself is arbitrary/meaningless - there's no fixed display size on a file, so it doesn't really have an actual DPI - it just needs a value put in there.

for printing, to get 300dpi you'd need to output

1200*1800 (4x6)

1500*2400 (5x7)

2400*3000 (8x10)

3300*4200 (11x14)

beyond this size, you can start upsizing in your output software to provide a 300dpi file to the printer - at these sizes and below, they are smaller than what the camera outputs (3456x5184)

Edit: In other words, it wouldn't actually be 72dpi unless you printed a 48x72 print from the out of camera file

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