Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Digital - Rumor Mongering
From: Adam Bridge <abridge@mac.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:13:41 -0800

On 2/21/03 Sal DiMarco,Jr.  wrote:

>Luggers,
>    For what it's worth the NY Times wants it digital images send at 300dpi.
>    My agents, Black Star send out 72dpi files as non-reproducable images to
>clients to examine. After they make their selects, then a large file is
>sent. 72dpi is only usable for web viewing.
>Happy Snaps,

What difference does dpi matter? Isn't the real issue the actual pixel
dimensions? The rest is just a translation from the digital image file and how
it is mapped onto either a page or a display device.

Adam
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