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SELECTING A PICTURE FORMAT

Under "Image Format", you can specify the full image data format and the capture mode.
PICTURE FORMAT SETTING
3
Select capture mode.
•There are two different settings avail-
able: "Frame Picture" and "Field
Picture". Refer to "Capture Mode"
below for details.
4
Click "OK".
•This completes picture format setting.
•This setting takes effect the next time
you use the capture function.
1
Open the menu bar
and click "Set-up"
— "Image Format".
•The "Image
Format" window
appears.
2
Select format.
•There are two different settings avail-
able: "JPEG (9. jpg)" and "Bitmap (9.
bmp)". Refer to "Picture Data Format"
below for details.
Set-up
Capture Mode
Image Format
Device Change
Initialize
ID Change
Counter Reset
TRANSFER DATA
Full image data can be captured and transferred in two different formats.

Picture Data Format

●JPEG (9. jpg)
•
This is the default setting. If you do not set Picture Format, image data is captured in this
format.
•
JPEG (Joint Photographic Expert Group) is a leading standard defining the compression and
decompression of still colour pictures.
•
The quantity of transferred data appears smaller because the images are compressed. This
results in a shorter transfer time.
●Bitmap (9. bmp)
•
Transfer time is longer when you use this format because there is no data compression. The
benefit is that picture quality is maintained with no deterioration.
•
Bitmap is a data format representing characters and graphics with combinations of pixels.
Full image data resolution is 768 x 552 pixels with 16.77 million colours (24-bit colour).
Index image data resolution is 80 x 60 pixels with 16.77 million colours (24-bit colour).

Capture Mode

●Frame Picture
•
This is the default setting. If you do not set Picture Format, images are captured in this
mode.
•
Since a frame consists of two overlapping 1/50 sec. images (one 1/25 sec. image forms a
field), it is unstable when capturing fast-moving motion pictures.
●Field Picture
•
While a field contains only half the data of a frame — meaning that vertical resolution is
half that of a frame — images captured from a fast-moving motion picture are more stable
than when captured with "Frame Picture".