Minolta 7i instruction manual Image Quality

IMAGE QUALITY

This camera has five image quality settings: raw, super fine, fine, standard, and economy. Always select the desired setting before taking the picture. See navigating the recording-mode menu on page 78.

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. The super-fine mode will produce the highest quality image and the largest image files. If the eco- nomical use of the CompactFlash card is important, use the economy mode. Standard image quality is sufficient for normal usage.

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 econo- my files are saved as 24-bit color or 8-bit monochrome images. RAW creates a file format that can only be read with the DiMAGE Viewer software.

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	EVF and
panel	LCD monitor
	RAW	RAW – unprocessed image data.
	S. FIN	Super fine – the highest quality image.
	FINE	Fine – high quality image.
	STD.	Standard – the default setting.
	ECON.	Economy – the smallest file sizes.

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