BASIC OPERATION

IMAGE QUALITY SELECTION

This digital camera supports four image quality modes – super-fine (SUPER FINE), fine (FINE), standard (STD.), and economy (ECON.).

Image quality is related to the rate of compression of the image. The rate of compression increases, and image quality decreases, in the order super-fine fine standard economy.

The lower the rate of compression of the image, the higher its quality. If image quality is important, use the super-fine or fine mode. Note, however, that as the rate of image compression is low (no compression in the super-fine mode), the number of images able to be saved in the compact flash card will be less than in the economy or standard modes.

If economic use of the compact flash card is important (the need to save as many images as possible in it), use the economy or standard modes. Note, however, that as the rate of image compression is high, the quality of the images will be lower than in the super-fine or fine modes.

The rate of compression, the image recording format, and the number of images which may be saved in a 30MB compact flash card is shown below for the four image quality modes.

 

SUPER-FINE

FINE

STANDARD

ECONOMY

 

(SUPER FINE)

(FINE)

(STD.)

(ECON.)

 

 

 

 

 

RATE OF

Uncompressed

Approx.1/5

Approx.1/10

Approx.1/15

COMPRESSION

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IMAGE

Exif2-TIFF

 

Exif2-JPEG

 

RECORDING

 

 

 

 

FORMAT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NUMBER OF

Approx. 3pics

Approx. 17pics

Approx. 33pics

Approx. 52pics

IMAGES WHICH

 

 

 

 

MAY BE SAVED IN

 

 

 

 

A 30MB COMPACT

 

 

 

 

FLASH CARD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

•The number of images for every image quality are approximate values only. The actual numbers will vary with the scenes photographed.

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