Image Quality and Compression

The process of reducing the file size of a picture when storing it is called compression. In this camera, pictures are compressed and recorded as JPEG files.

The more a picture is compressed, the smaller the picture size becomes and the larger the num- ber of pictures that can be stored in memory or on a memory card. However, the quality of the image is degraded and the reproducibility of the image’s fine areas is reduced.

The less a picture is compressed, the larger the picture size becomes and the smaller the number of pictures that can be stored in memory or on a memory card. However, it maintains the pre- sentation of the image’s fine areas and increases the image quality.

Image Quality Setting

Image quality can be also selected in the assist modes ( 28) or scene modes ( 34).

The Shooting Menu

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Nikon CP4200 manual Image Quality and Compression, Image Quality Setting