Panasonic Lumix FZ20 PPI?

[XMcbainX]

I bought a Panasonic lumix FZ20 for all its features and so far I am relatively happy with it.

I have been taking sports related pictures and noticed significant grain and artifacting at 400 ISO. I also took some still portraits of my team and while doing some photo editing I noticed that the pictures were taken at 72 PPI.

Is there some way to get the camera to take 150 or 300 PPI pictures, or can it only take 72 PPI picutres?

If so, this is rather dissapointing. I'm not looking forward to printing out pictures at such low resolution.

[genece]

Somehow this should be made a stickey so it rremains on the board....
But dpi means nothing until you print a photo from a FZ20 is 2560 X 1930 pixels which at 72dpi make the photo 35.6 inches X 26.7 inches, a little large to print ( but it can be done, I have some beautiful 20 X 30s on my walls)
Since you have PS just uncheck the resample block and change the resolution to 300..... Make you feel better?

Now accept the change and save that file with a new file name. (add an A to the name.)

now with whatever you use to view photos...open the original photo and the one you just saved with the A.......look the same? Mine do.

http://blog.fotolia.com/us/faq/buyer/dpi-_digital_photography-_phot.html

http://www.scantips.com/basics1a.html

[XMcbainX]

I was still wondering if there was a way to set the camera to take higher resoluion pictures by default.

[genece]

You missed the whole point....it has nothing to do with the camera.....
Some cameras write in the exif data to transfer the photos at 180dpi or another dpi but panasonic does not.
If you use a program to do your transfer you can usually tell it what dpi you want....but it means NOTHING

Read the articles again....maybe you will get a better understanding

[David Metsky]

I was still wondering if there was a way to set the camera to take higher resoluion pictures by default.
As genece said, you're misinterpreting the numbers you are seeing.

Your camera takes pictures that are 2560 X 1930 pixels. That is the resolution of your images and nothing is going to change that. When you view or print the pictures you need to tell the program or printer how big you want it to display or print; that is the where the DPI comes in. On screen, all it does is zoom the image, it has no real impact. Just ignore it in PhotoShop until it's time to print.

-dave-

[XMcbainX]

I understand now. Thanks for all the help.