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Nic,
Believe it or not, your photos look exactly the same at 300DPI and 90DPI, provided you're looking at them on a computer screen. DPI (dots per inch) is a term that has to do with the printing resolution of your photos, not the shooting resolution. Your camera works in pixels--in the S5000's case, 3.1 million of them. These 3.1 million pixels translate to a resolution of anywhere from 2816x2120 to 1280x960, depending on the quality setting you select in the camera. (2816x2120 is actually 6.0 million pixels, because the S5000's sensor cheats a little by using interpolation to beef up the megapixels.) When a photo is taken by the camera, it is assigned an arbitrary DPI value (usually 72 or 300).
The DPI value determines how large the image will be when printed. For example, an image taken by your S5000 at the 2816x2120 setting would print at 9.4"x7.1" at 300DPI or 39.1"x29.4" at 72DPI. The lower the DPI, the bigger the print, but also the lower the image quality. Conversely, the higher the DPI, the smaller the print, but also the higher the print quality.
A photo's DPI value can be set in any reasonably advanced image editing program. So if your camera is giving you images at 90DPI, you can use one of these programs to set the DPI value to whatever you want. In Adobe Photoshop, for example, you would do the following:
1. Open Photoshop.
2. Open your image.
3. Navigate to the "Image" dropdown menu and select "Image Size".
4. Uncheck "Resample Image".
5. Change the "Resolution" field to whatever you like.
As you change the print resolution, you will see the "Width" and "Height" fields under "Document Size" change on the fly. If you want the image to print at a specific size instead of at a specific DPI, you can change the width and height fields instead and the resolution field will change accordingly.
An in-depth discussion of the "myth of DPI" can be found here. I hope this clears up your issue.
Believe it or not, your photos look exactly the same at 300DPI and 90DPI, provided you're looking at them on a computer screen. DPI (dots per inch) is a term that has to do with the printing resolution of your photos, not the shooting resolution. Your camera works in pixels--in the S5000's case, 3.1 million of them. These 3.1 million pixels translate to a resolution of anywhere from 2816x2120 to 1280x960, depending on the quality setting you select in the camera. (2816x2120 is actually 6.0 million pixels, because the S5000's sensor cheats a little by using interpolation to beef up the megapixels.) When a photo is taken by the camera, it is assigned an arbitrary DPI value (usually 72 or 300).
The DPI value determines how large the image will be when printed. For example, an image taken by your S5000 at the 2816x2120 setting would print at 9.4"x7.1" at 300DPI or 39.1"x29.4" at 72DPI. The lower the DPI, the bigger the print, but also the lower the image quality. Conversely, the higher the DPI, the smaller the print, but also the higher the print quality.
A photo's DPI value can be set in any reasonably advanced image editing program. So if your camera is giving you images at 90DPI, you can use one of these programs to set the DPI value to whatever you want. In Adobe Photoshop, for example, you would do the following:
1. Open Photoshop.
2. Open your image.
3. Navigate to the "Image" dropdown menu and select "Image Size".
4. Uncheck "Resample Image".
5. Change the "Resolution" field to whatever you like.
As you change the print resolution, you will see the "Width" and "Height" fields under "Document Size" change on the fly. If you want the image to print at a specific size instead of at a specific DPI, you can change the width and height fields instead and the resolution field will change accordingly.
An in-depth discussion of the "myth of DPI" can be found here. I hope this clears up your issue.
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