Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

Displaying the Shooting Menu and High-sensitivity Menu

Choose P (programmed auto), M (manual), or B(high sensitivity) by rotating the mode dial. Press dto display the shooting menu or high-sensitivity menu.

Shooting menu

Image quality

Image size

Optimize image

White balance

ISO sensitivity

Exit

•The high sensitivity menu is displayed when Bis selected by the mode dial.

•To return to the shooting mode from the shooting or high-sensitivity menu, press dor the shutter-release button.

Menus Setup and Playback Shooting,

qImage Quality

Choose the amount of compression applied to pictures. Lower compression ratios result in higher quality pictures, but also larger file sizes, limiting the number of pictures that can be recorded.

aFine

Fine quality images (compression ratio of 1:4), suitable for enlargement or high- quality prints.

bNormal (default setting)

Normal image quality (compression of 1:8), suited to most applications.

cBasic

Basic image quality (compression of 1:16), suitable for pictures that will be distributed by e-mail or used in web pages.

Image quality is shown by an icon (A6, 7).

DMore Information

76See “Number of Exposures Remaining” (A78) for more information.