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When I transfer images from my camedia 2040ZOOM to my computer, they come in as 72ppi images.

How can I get them in as 300ppi?

Anyone?

Thanks.

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The short answer is you cannot!

I believe the resolution of your camera is 1600 x 1200 pixels; if you print this out @ 300dpi. you will get a print size of 5.3 x 4 inches. if you print at 72 dpi the print size will be 22 x16 ins.

The 72 ppi that is recorded with your exif data is meaningless.

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sure you can change it.
Just go to image size in your photo software and change it to 300dpi
Its what all the professional printing companies suggest you do before you print any of your images.
Just do a save as to a tiff file for best resolults
If you keep making changes and save over and over again to a jpg file you loose a lot of your quality.

changing to 300 dpi doesnt make your image smaller. I printed some of mine for and art show at 300dpi at 11x16 and the people who saw them on display said they were truely amazed that my work had come from a digital camera.

I dont remember what mpx your C2040is, I just remember when I owned a C3030 it took pics at 3.4 mpx. which I couldnt print past 8x10, now I have 6.1 mpx
Hope this helps

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Sorry to disagree with you rct, but unless you increase the number of pixels by interpolation, the image will be smaller.

For example;
A 500 x 500 pixel image @72dpi will print 6.94ins
the same image @300dpi will print 1.67ins
a jpg file of this image will be approx 0.75mb.

You need to increase the pixels by a factor of 4.16 to get the same print size @ 300 dpi, which will up the file size to some 13mb.

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