I just bough a nikon coolpix 950. I have been adjusting the image quality in order to get a higher resolution picture but to no avail. I can only get 72 dpi at 1600x 1200. The only time i got a 300 dpi shot was at the "hi" setting where 1 image uses 8MB of space.

Is there any other way of setting it so I can get a better resolution than 72 dpi and still get at least 8 pictures from an 8 MB card?

Thanks for the help!!!

-- Eric Rivor (erivor@pasqua.com), May 12, 1999

Answers

When you shoot at High uncompressed this is 1600x1200 resolution saved as a tiff file. This file should be about 5.6 MB. When you shoot High fine this is still 1600x1200 resolution, but the file is a jpeg file and is compressed to about 900K. With jpeg fine you loose very little information but just have a smaller file. 1600x1200 gives you an 8x10 print at about 150dpi which works good with a high quality inkjet printer. When this is viewed on a monitor your picture will show up larger than 8x10 because you monitor resolution is about 72dpi. But you should be able to change the screen size in most any editng program. Your file size is not a function of dpi, but a function or your resolution and file compression.

-- Ralph (REObert@aol.com), May 12, 1999.

Well i don t understand that.. with my 950, all my printing are 300dpi (choosen with photoshop mac) and the result is 13 cm x 10 cm. And in standard mode, all pictures are about 460Kb.

-- Philippe Lepoivre Paris (phl@cogitel.fr), May 13, 1999.

The number of pixels (1600x1200) is fixed. Your editing software can vary the dpi (which by default of the software (not the camera) may be 72dpi (which is monitor resolution). If you use your software to increase the dpi (say to 150 for color printing) you will notice that the file size and number of pixels stays the same, but the physical picture size that comes out on your printer will be smaller. This is all normal (although somewhat confusing at first). If you think about it - it will start to make sense. Good luck and consider yourself on of the lucky ones that has found the camera in stock - I'm still trying to find one....

-- Jorge Casari (jcasari@mail.com), May 13, 1999.

Hi, There are several review and information articles on the Nikon at the following website:

http://come.to/digitaldarkroom

Enjoy! Howard

-- Howard (hposner1@swarthmore.edu), May 13, 1999.