Canon 850 IS, SD800 IS Shooting, Changing the Recording Pixels and Compression (Still Images), * (Recording Pixels), 1FUNC. Menu* (Compression)

Shooting

Changing the Recording Pixels and Compression (Still Images)

Shooting Mode

1FUNC. Menu* (Compression)/* (Recording Pixels).

See Menus and Settings (p. 22).

* Default setting.

zUse the or button to select compression/recording pixels settings and press the FUNC./SET but- ton.

Approximate Values for Recording Pixels

	Recording Pixels			Purpose*
	(Large)	3072 x 2304	High	Printing to about A3-size
		pixels		297 x 420 mm (11.7 x 16.5 in.)
				Printing to about A4-size
	(Medium 1)	2592 x 1944		210 x 297 mm (8.3 x 11.7 in.)
		pixels		Printing to about Letter-size
				216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 in.)
	(Medium 2)	2048 x 1536		Printing to about A5-size
		pixels		148 x 210 mm (6 x 8.3 in.)
				Print postcard-size prints
	(Medium 3)	1600 x 1200		148 x 100 mm (6 x 4 in.)
		pixels		Print L-size prints
				119 x 89 mm (4.7 x 3.5 in.)
	(Small)	640 x 480	Low	Send images as e-mail
		pixels		attachments or shoot more images
	or	1600 x 1200	When printing to postcards (p. 38).
(Postcard)
		pixels
			Printing on wide size paper (you can check
		3072 x 1728	the composition at a 16:9 aspect ratio.
(Widescreen)		pixels	Areas that will not be recorded appear on
			the LCD monitor as a black border.)

* Paper sizes vary according to region.

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