Image size and quality

You can choose image size (number of pixels) and image quality (compression ratio) based on the kind of images you want to shoot. The larger you make the image size and the higher you make the image quality, the better your image, but also the larger the amount of data needed to preserve your image. This means you can save fewer images in your “Memory Stick.” Choose an image size and quality level appropriately for the kind of images you want to shoot.

You can resize the images later (Resize function, see page 59).

You can choose image size from among the five options in the following tables.

Image size

Examples

 

 

2272×1704

Very fine prints

 

 

2272 (3:2)

3:2 prints1)

1600×1200

Printing A5 size images

 

 

1280×960

Printing postcard size images

 

 

640×480

Creating your home page

 

 

1)This option records images in a horizontal to vertical proportion of 3:2 to match the size of the print paper used.

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The number of images that can be saved in a “Memory Stick”2)

The number of images that can be saved in FINE (STANDARD) mode are shown below. (Units: number of images)

Capacity

16MB

32MB

64MB

128MB

MSX-256

MSX-512

MSX-1G

Image size

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2272×1704

8 (14)

16 (30)

32 (60)

65 (121)

119 (216)

242 (440)

494 (898)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2272 (3:2)

8 (14)

16 (30)

32 (60)

65 (121)

119 (216)

242 (440)

494 (898)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1600×1200

16 (30)

33 (61)

66 (123)

133 (246)

238 (446)

484 (907)

988 (1852)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1280×960

24

50

101

202

357

726

1482

(46)

(93)

(187)

(376)

(649)

(1320)

(2694)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

640×480

97

196

394

790

1428

2904

5928

(243)

(491)

(985)

(1975)

(3571)

(7261)

(14821)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2)When [REC MODE] is set to [NORMAL] For the number of images that can be saved in other modes, see page 92.

•When the images are viewed on the LCD screen of the camera, they all look the same size.

•Number of shooting images can differ from these values according to shooting conditions.

•The image size value (e.g., 2272×1704) is the number of pixels displayed.

•When the remaining number of images recordable is more than 9999, “>9999” is indicated.