IMAGE QUALITY

This camera has four image quality settings: super fine, fine, standard, and economy. Always select the desired setting before taking the picture. See “navigating the auto-recording mode menu” section on page 38. In multi-function recording mode, image quality is controlled in the Basic section of the multi-function recording menu (p. 50).

Image quality controls the rate of compression, but has no effect on the number of pixels in the image. The higher the image quality, the lower the rate of compression and the larger the file sizes. If the economical use of the CompactFlash card is important, use the economy mode. Standard image quality is sufficient for normal usage. The super-fine mode will produce the highest quality image and the largest image files. Depending on the image size, when capturing super fine images, a delay of up to fifty seconds can occur as the image is saved to the CompactFlash card; the monitors will be blank and the access lamp will glow during that period.

File formats vary with the image quality setting. Super fine images are saved as a TIFF file. The fine, standard, and economy settings are formatted as a JPEG file. Super fine, fine, standard, and economy files can be recorded as color monochrome images (p. 60) in the multi-function recording mode.

If the image quality is changed, the data panel will display the approximate number of images that can be recorded at that setting on the installed CompactFlash card. One CompactFlash card can contain images with differing qualities.

Data

LCD monitor

 

File type

panel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

S. FIN

Super fine – the highest quality image.

TIFF

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FINE

Fine – high quality image.

JPEG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STD

Standard – the default setting.

JPEG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ECON

Economy – the smallest file sizes.

JPEG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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