Nikon S2J00200401 user manual Image Quality, Choosing the Compression Ratio, High

Image Quality

ADVANCED PHOTOGRAPHY

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

Image quality settings can be chosen from the image-quality
			SHOOTING MENU
sub-menu, which can be displayed by highlighting Image		Image Quality
Quality in the shooting menu and pressing the multi selec-
		Quality		NORM
tor to the right.		Color
The following options are available:
Option	Description

—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.

GE

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

QUALITY

Choosing the Compression Ratio

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

The Quality menu contains the options listed below.

SHOOTING MENU

Image Quality

Quality

High

JPEG Fine

JPEG Normal OK

JPEG Basic

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.

SHOOTING MENU

Image Quality

Quality/High

YCbCr

RGB OK

NEF (RAW)

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