Canon G9 „Approximate Values for Recording Pixels, „Approximate Values for Compression Settings

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„Approximate Values for Recording Pixels

Recording Pixels						Purpose*
Large	12M	4000	× 3000 High		Printing to about A2 size (Approx.
					420	× 594 mm (16.5 × 23.4 in.))
Medium 1	8M	3264	× 2448		Printing to about A3 size (Approx.
					297	× 420 mm (11.7 × 16.5 in.))
					Printing to about A4 size (Approx.
Medium 2	5M	2592	× 1944		210	× 297 mm (8.3 × 11.7 in.))
					Printing to about Letter size prints
					216	× 279 mm (8.5 × 11 in.)
					Printing postcard-size prints 148
Medium 3	2M	1600	× 1200		× 100 mm (6 × 4 in.)
					Printing L-size prints 119 × 89
					mm (4.7 × 3.5 in.)
					Sending images as e-mail
Small	0.3M	640 × 480		Low	attachments or shooting more
					images

Printing wide size prints (Images are

Widescreen 4000 × 2248 recorded with 16:9 aspect ratios. Areas not recorded will display as black bars

on the LCD monitor.)

RAW 4000 × 3000 p. 80

: Approximate number of recording pixels. (M is short for megapixels.) * Paper sizes vary according to region.

„Approximate Values for Compression Settings

Compression		Purpose
Superfine	High Quality	Shoot higher quality images
Fine		Shoot normal quality images
	Normal
Normal		Shoot more images

z See Memory Cards and Estimated Capacities (p. 259). z See Image Data Sizes (Estimated) (p. 261).