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MSG folks- Recently I have been getting a lot of rejections on my isolated objects on white due to the following -

"The area occupied by the isolated subject is too small, and by cropping the resulting image is under 3 Megapixels"


I think they mean 3 MB in size since my camera is 18 MP.  A lot of my single objects (such as a coin) are going to be under 3MB in size for sure. The company (DT) requires that I remove excess white space thus even making the pic smaller in size. Any ideas? Do I basically have to do a macro shoot to insure my file size it over 3mb?

Thanks.


Tom

When they say 3 megapixels, that's exactly what they mean.  File size isn't the issue; resolution is.  How big are the images they're rejecting (pixel width x height)?

If you're shooting small objects, either you're going to need to use a macro lens (or the macro mode on a fixed lens camera) to make them fill the frame or at least fill enough of it to exceed the minimum pixel count after cropping; or you're going to have to put several of those objects in the picture.

http://web.forret.com/tools/megapixel.asp Megapixel Calculator