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Raw? If so, you need to change the settings in the conversion to whatever dpi you want the file to be. dpi at that point isn't an issue anyway.
Stacy Kendrick said:
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Stacy Kendrick said:
my photos from the MKII are showing up at 72 dpi in photoshop...is
this right? The rebel showed up at 180dpi....am I missing
something here?

Stacy
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hmmm, mine come in as 300dpi.
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My experience has generally been that JPEG's are written on the CF card at 72ppi (I suppose the camera man. think .jpg's are more likely to viewed on the computer and not printed?) while TIFF's are inherently 300ppi. These settings are applied during in-camera signal processing - i.e. ASIC chip or DIGIC for Canon (same thing different name). This is true for a number of camera companies...

Cheers, Dave
 
I'm using the same card that I used with my rebel...it was at 180 dpi when viewed thru PS....you would think the $4500 camera would be better than that.....
David Spraggs said:
My experience has generally been that JPEG's are written on the CF
card at 72ppi (I suppose the camera man. think .jpg's are more
likely to viewed on the computer and not printed?) while TIFF's are
inherently 300ppi. These settings are applied during in-camera
signal processing - i.e. ASIC chip or DIGIC for Canon (same thing
different name). This is true for a number of camera companies...

Cheers, Dave
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Stacy,

72 dpi means nothing. it's just one way of telling your monitor how to display the file. You can change the dpi to anything
Stacy Kendrick said:
David Spraggs said:
My experience has generally been that JPEG's are written on the CF
card at 72ppi (I suppose the camera man. think .jpg's are more
likely to viewed on the computer and not printed?) while TIFF's are
inherently 300ppi. These settings are applied during in-camera
signal processing - i.e. ASIC chip or DIGIC for Canon (same thing
different name). This is true for a number of camera companies...

Cheers, Dave
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The 72 DPI or 300 DPI is a meaningless number. The 1D Mark II is actually taking the picture (at the sensor level) at something over 3,000 pixels per inch - again another mostly useless number. You get 8 million pixels to spread out over whatever area you want. How you spread those 8 million pixels out determines how many DPI you end up with for your final output.

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To bring that point home, go to the Image Size window in Photoshop and make sure Resample Image is unchecked. Now type in any dpi resolution and hit OK. Nothing changed. But if you try to open that photo in a standard Jpeg viewer at actual size, the size of the photo will vary. The original pixels are still there, they're just mapped differently.

Regards,

David
Paul Stout said:
The 72 DPI or 300 DPI is a meaningless number. The 1D Mark II is
actually taking the picture (at the sensor level) at something over
3,000 pixels per inch - again another mostly useless number. You
get 8 million pixels to spread out over whatever area you want.
How you spread those 8 million pixels out determines how many DPI
you end up with for your final output.

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Then why does my rebel..straight out of the camera show 180...

The DPI does make a difference. Ever try resizing a photo to 300 dpi> It's not just the view. When I resized the pic, the photo is 14600 pixels wide and 9733 pixels tall. With a print size of 48 in X 32 in.

When I look at my photo in PS at the actual pixels, they look cruddy at 72 dpi..I don't want to have to resize them everytime in order to see them at high rez...and have a HUGE file.
Just wondering if that's the norm for this camera.

And you said it.. How you spread those 8 million pixels out determines how many DPI you end up with for your final output.

I want a 16X20 at 300 DPI not 72 DPI..There is a big difference.

I just want to know if that's what is happening on eveyone's camera, or if I missed a setting in PS or something. I can resize if I have to...just an extra step. The newspaper I shoot for wants at least 180 dpi.

I'm not starting a contoversy here...just looking at possibilities.

Thanks for everyone's input!

Stacy
Paul Stout said:
The 72 DPI or 300 DPI is a meaningless number. The 1D Mark II is
actually taking the picture (at the sensor level) at something over
3,000 pixels per inch - again another mostly useless number. You
get 8 million pixels to spread out over whatever area you want.
How you spread those 8 million pixels out determines how many DPI
you end up with for your final output.

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I see your point. That is not my original question. Is it just me?? OR does it show up like this on everyone's photoshop?
Thanks,
Stacy
Divo said:
Regards,

David
Paul Stout said:
The 72 DPI or 300 DPI is a meaningless number. The 1D Mark II is
actually taking the picture (at the sensor level) at something over
3,000 pixels per inch - again another mostly useless number. You
get 8 million pixels to spread out over whatever area you want.
How you spread those 8 million pixels out determines how many DPI
you end up with for your final output.

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Look in your Preferences are in photoshop. I don't recall if there's a place to set what dpi opr not.
You "could" create an action for resizing....
Again, dpi means nothing. Nothing at all when it comes to image display.
Stacy Kendrick said:
The DPI does make a difference. Ever try resizing a photo to 300
dpi> It's not just the view. When I resized the pic, the photo is
14600 pixels wide and 9733 pixels tall. With a print size of 48 in
X 32 in.
When I look at my photo in PS at the actual pixels, they look
cruddy at 72 dpi..I don't want to have to resize them everytime in
order to see them at high rez...and have a HUGE file.
Just wondering if that's the norm for this camera.

And you said it.. How you spread those 8 million pixels out
determines how many DPI you end up with for your final output.

I want a 16X20 at 300 DPI not 72 DPI..There is a big difference.
I just want to know if that's what is happening on eveyone's
camera, or if I missed a setting in PS or something. I can resize
if I have to...just an extra step. The newspaper I shoot for wants
at least 180 dpi.

I'm not starting a contoversy here...just looking at possibilities.

Thanks for everyone's input!

Stacy
Paul Stout said:
The 72 DPI or 300 DPI is a meaningless number. The 1D Mark II is
actually taking the picture (at the sensor level) at something over
3,000 pixels per inch - again another mostly useless number. You
get 8 million pixels to spread out over whatever area you want.
How you spread those 8 million pixels out determines how many DPI
you end up with for your final output.

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I think most of us shoot RAW and have the RAW converter set to 300 dpi...
Stacy Kendrick said:
Divo said:
Regards,

David
Paul Stout said:
The 72 DPI or 300 DPI is a meaningless number. The 1D Mark II is
actually taking the picture (at the sensor level) at something over
3,000 pixels per inch - again another mostly useless number. You
get 8 million pixels to spread out over whatever area you want.
How you spread those 8 million pixels out determines how many DPI
you end up with for your final output.

--
Photography on the Run
http://www.pbase.com/paul42
more than 360,000 hits!
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
--
http://www.stacykendrickphotography.com
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http://www.caughtintimephotography.com
http://www.pbase.com/melaniekipp
 
Stacy Kendrick said:
The DPI does make a difference. Ever try resizing a photo to 300
dpi> It's not just the view. When I resized the pic, the photo is
14600 pixels wide and 9733 pixels tall. With a print size of 48 in
X 32 in.
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When you resize in Photoshop, make sure you have the resample box unticked. All that will change is the DPI and the image dimensions but not the actual x pixels by x pixels. This will give you a more realistic display of the size of the photo in inches if you print it at that DPI.

The only place where actual DPI makes a difference in Photoshop is if you make an action that adds text (as in a signature action) - If you don't run it at the same DPI setting as when you recorded it, the text will be weird - at least, I haven't figured out a way to make the text be independent of the DPI.
 
Adobe Photoshop CS has options to set the default screen resolution and print resolution to PPI - that's Pixels Per Inch OR PPcm - that's Pixels Per centimeter.

-Doug
 
I don't have a MkII, but the original 1D tags the files as 72 DPI, so I suspect that this is normal behavior for the MkII as well. For me, the easiest way to deal with this is to use Breeze Downloader Pro -- one of the plug-ins that comes with it allows you to reset the DPI value to anything you want. Its automatic and it happens during the download process. Seems to have no noticable effect in PS, other than that the images show up as 300 DPI rather than 72. The following is from the preferences screen in Downloader Pro.

Adjusts the DPI of downloaded JPEGs The resolution can be specified in DPI or dots/cm. Please note: Adjusting the resolution does not affect the image data. The resolution is used by some applications (e.g. Photoshop and Photoshop Elements) to determine the print size.

Ed
Stacy Kendrick said:
my photos from the MKII are showing up at 72 dpi in photoshop...is
this right? The rebel showed up at 180dpi....am I missing
something here?

Stacy

http://www.stacykendrickphotography.com
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Thanks for the info!
Stacy
Ed Beaver said:
Adjusts the DPI of downloaded JPEGs The resolution can be specified
in DPI or dots/cm. Please note: Adjusting the resolution does not
affect the image data. The resolution is used by some applications
(e.g. Photoshop and Photoshop Elements) to determine the print size.

Ed
Stacy Kendrick said:
my photos from the MKII are showing up at 72 dpi in photoshop...is
this right? The rebel showed up at 180dpi....am I missing
something here?

Stacy

http://www.stacykendrickphotography.com
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