CAMERA SET menu (continued)

120 ×

Up to 10 × zoom is performed optically, and after that, up to 120 × zoom is performed digitally.

WIDE SELECT

You can record a picture in a ratio suitable for the screen on which it will be displayed.

4:3

Standard setting (to record pictures to be played back on a 4:3 TV).

16:9 WIDE ( )

Records pictures to be played back on a 16:9 wide TV in full screen mode.

When viewed on the LCD screen with [16:9 WIDE ( )] selected.

When viewed on a 16:9 wide screen

TV*

When viewed on a standard TV**

*Picture appears in full screen mode when the wide-screen TV switches to full mode.

**Played in 4:3 mode. When you play a picture in the wide mode, it appears as you have seen on the LCD screen.

STEADYSHOT

You can compensate for camera shake (the default setting is [ON]). Set [STEADYSHOT] to

[OFF] ( ) when using a tripod (optional).

MEMORY SET menu

Settings for the “Memory Stick Duo”

(QUALITY/IMAGE SIZE/ALL ERASE/NEW FOLDER, etc.)

The default settings are marked with . The indicators in parentheses appear when the items are selected.

See page 34 for details on selecting menu items.

STILL SET

QUALITY

FINE ( )

Records still images at the fine image quality level.

STANDARD ( )

Records still images at the standard image quality level.

Capacity of the “Memory Stick Duo” (MB) and the number of recordable pictures

 

640 × 480*

8MB

50

 

120

 

 

16MB (supplied

96

with DCR-PC55E)

240

 

 

32MB

190

 

485

 

 

64MB

390

 

980

 

 

128MB

780

 

1970

 

 

256MB

1400

 

3550

 

 

512MB

2850

 

7200

 

 

1GB

5900

 

14500

 

 

*Top: [FINE] is selected for image quality.

Bottom: [STANDARD] is selected for image quality.

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