Image Quality

PHOTOGRAPHY ADVANCED

The image quality setting controls image quality and image format, which includes image type (color or black-and-white) and image size (in pixels).

Image quality settings can be chosen from the image-quality

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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sub-menu, which can be displayed by highlighting Image

 

Image Quality

 

 

 

Quality in the shooting menu and pressing the multi selec-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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IMA—

Quality

Choose the amount photographs will be compressed. Four options are available: High, JPEG Fine, JPEG Normal, and JPEG Basic. Selecting High gives you a further choice of two or (depending on the option selected in Custom Setting 28) three file formats:YCbCr-TIFF, RGB-TIFF,and RAW.

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Color Choose whether images will be recorded in color or in black-and-white.

Resolution Choose from Large (3,008 ⋅ 1,960 pixels) or Medium (2,000 ⋅ 1,312 pixels)

Choosing the Compression Ratio

Highlighting Quality in the image-quality menu and pressing the multi selector to the right displays a menu of image quality (compression ratio) settings.

The Quality menu contains the options listed below.

High

Highlighting High in the image-quality menu and pressing the multi selector to the right displays a menu of file-format options. HI-quality images can be stored as uncompressed TIFF or RAW data or (depending on the option selected using Custom Setting 28) as RAW data compressed using a “lossless” algorithm that has no effect on image quality.

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Image Quality

Quality

High

JPEG Fine

JPEG Normal OK

JPEG Basic

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Image Quality

Quality/High

YCbCr

RGB OK

NEF (RAW)

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