Thursday, February 18, 2016

Why are my RAW photo files showing as only 18 in Photoshop?


Hi Guys,

This discussion has proved to be really useful as I've had the same problem and now I'm confused what I should do next. My RAW photo files are showing as only 18" in Photoshop. I need them to be printed at approx 40", would you just leave as is and send to print or re-size up to the correct size in Photoshop i.e in inches. Mine is displaying at 240 dpi/ppi but only 18" with RAW from Nikon. So not sure whether to leave it, scale up to correct size and keep resolution the same, or change both the size up and res to 300. Some help on this would be amazing.

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Is it necessary to get a telephoto zoom lens for my DSLR?


I have the Nikon D5200 with the 18-55mm kit lens and the Nikkor 50mm 1.4g lens. The latter works great for portraits, street and low light photography while the former, which is a general purpose lens, helps me out in shooting wide shots. I do not have a zoom lens. More often than not, I find myself in situations where I cannot get closer to my subjects especially when I do wildlife or macro photography. Is a telephoto zoom lens (till 200-300mm) helpful or is there another way around to this? I do not wanna spend a fortune on this and my budget is less than $300.

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