Recording

[QUALITY]

Set the compression rate at which the pictures are to be stored.

Applicable modes:

[A]: Fine (when giving priority to the picture quality)

[›]: Standard (when using the standard picture quality and increasing the number of pictures to be recorded without changing the number of pixels)

[ ]: RAWiFine (In addition to the [RAW] settings, a fine-equivalent JPEG image is simultaneously created.)¢1

[ ]: RAWiStandard (In addition to the [RAW] settings, a standard-equivalent JPEG image is simultaneously created.)¢1

[ ]: RAW file (When the image is to be edited with a PC in high quality)¢2

¢1 If you delete a RAW file from the camera, the corresponding JPEG image will also be deleted.

¢2 It is fixed to maximum recordable pixels ([L]) for each image aspect ratio.

Note

•Refer to P27 for information about the number of recordable pictures.

•You can enjoy more advanced picture editing if you use RAW files. You can save RAW files in a file format (JPEG, TIFF etc.) that can be displayed on your PC etc., develop them and edit them using the software “SILKYPIX Developer Studio” by Ichikawa Soft Laboratory on the CD-ROM (supplied).

•The following effects are not reflected in RAW images:

–[RED-EYE REMOVAL], [I.RESOLUTION], [I.DYNAMIC], [PICTURE ADJUST] and [COLOR SPACE] in [REC] Mode Menu

–Scene Mode

–My Color Mode

• [

] images are recorded with a smaller data volume than [

] or [

].

•When the [QUALITY] is set to [ ], the [PRINT SET] and [FAVORITE] features are disabled.

[FACE RECOG.]

[OFF]/[ON]/[MEMORY]/[SET] Note

•Refer to P119 for details.

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