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Understanding the Image-Quality Display

The current image-quality setting is displayed in the rear control panel as shown at right. An image-quality setting of JPEG Normal is shown as NORM, a file format of YCbCr-TIFF as CbCr, and an image type of black-and-white as B/W.

Image type (black-and- white images only)

Image size

Image quality File format

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Image Quality and File Size

The approximate number of images that can be stored on a 96-MB memory card at different combinations of image quality, image size, and file format is shown in the following table (image type has no effect on file size and hence bears no relation to the number of images that can be stored on a memory card).

Image	File format	Image	Approx.	Approx. number of
quality		size	file size	images (96 MB card)*
	YCbCr-TIFF	Large	11.2 MB	8
		Medium	5.0 MB	17
High	RGB-TIFF	Large	16.9 MB	5
		Medium	7.5 MB	12
	RAW (uncompressed)	–	7.6 MB	11
	RAW (compressed)		**	†
JPEG Fine	JPEG (1 : 4)	Large	2.8 MB	29
		Medium	1.3 MB	66
JPEG	JPEG (1 : 8)	Large	1.4 MB	59
Normal
		Medium	640 KB	132
JPEG	JPEG (1 : 16)	Large	720 KB	118
Basic
		Medium	320 KB	256

*The actual file size (and hence number of images that can be stored on the memory card) JPEG-compressed image will depend on the particular subject and composition. In general the more detail present in an image, the larger the resulting JPEG file.

**Compressed fifty to sixty percent over RAW (uncompressed)

†Although the number of exposures remaining shown in the control panels is the same as for RAW (uncompressed), images are compressed as they are saved, with the result that a larger number of images can be stored on the memory card.

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