Mapping at 180 dpi

My new camera is a canon elph 780is. It boosts 12.1 mg pixels. Almost all of the new point and shoot cameras have this level of image attainment. Sadly most do not map at 180 dpi. Most map at 72 dpi.

This translates into a very different photo when it comes to do some digital photos. Realize that when photos are not used on the web or made into email snaps the dpi that a photo is collected makes a huge difference. Most of the point and shoots uses this collection number to make huge 72 dpi prints. Most of the time, most people are not going to get a 5 foot by 3 foot size photo yet this is the size that is collected.

The canon collects its 12+ mg pixels into a 180 setting. The collection size is 16 by 22. When making a 13X19 photo this fits into the framework with a little bit of editing. Trying to find this in the specs fora camera is impossible.

I reduced the photos for better loads on the web before I loaded them up for Fickr. This is easily done in photoshop.. but at least I have that option and the density to take any photo that I have shot and make it a print that will print on my printer without too much reduction... yeah!