Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

Menus Setup and Playback Shooting,

AImage Mode

Pictures taken with a digital camera are recorded as image files. The size of the files, and with it the number of images that can be recorded, depends on the size and quality of the images. Before shooting, choose an image mode according to how you plan to use the picture.

 

Option

Size (pixels)

Description

 

 

 

⋅ 2,304

Highest quality, suitable for enlargements

M High (3072P)

3,072

or high-quality prints. The compression

 

 

 

 

ratio is approximately 1:4.

 

 

 

 

 

d

Normal (3072)

3,072

⋅ 2,304

Best choice in most situations. The

(default setting)

 

 

 

 

compression ratio is approximately 1:8.

e

Normal (2592)

2,592

⋅ 1,944

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

⋅ 1,536

Smaller size allows more pictures to be

g

Normal (2048)

2,048

stored. The compression ratio is

 

 

 

 

approximately 1:8.

 

 

 

 

 

j

PC screen (1024)

1,024 ⋅ 768

Suited to display on a computer monitor.

The compression ratio is approximately 1:8.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

⋅ 480

Suited to full-screen display on a television,

k

TV screen (640)

640

or distribution by e-mail or the web. The

 

 

 

 

compression ratio is approximately 1:8.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

⋅ 1,728

Pictures with an aspect ratio of 16:9 can be

Y

16:9

3,072

taken. The compression ratio is

 

 

 

 

approximately 1:8.

The icon for the current setting is displayed in the monitor in shooting and playback modes (A6, 7).

CImage Mode

The image mode setting can also be applied from the easy auto, scene and one-touch portrait menus. Changes made to the image mode setting from any of the three menus apply to all shooting

66modes.