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Setup of the camera (Advanced operations)
Setting the aspect ratio and image quality

MENU button t 1 t [Aspect Ratio] t Select the desired

ratio

Note
•This item cannot be s et when the exposure mode is set to Sweep Panorama or 3D
Sweep Panorama.

MENU button t 1 t [Quality] t Select the desired setting

Aspect Ratio

3:2 A normal ratio.
16:9 An HDTV ratio.

Quality

(RAW) File format: RAW (Records using the RAW compression
format.)
This format does not perform any digital processing on the
images. Select this format to process images on a computer
for professional purposes.
• The image size is fixed to the maximum size. The image
size is not displayed on the screen.
(RAW &
JPEG)
File format: RAW (Records using the RAW compression
format.) + JPEG
A RAW image and a JPEG image are created at the same
time. This is suitable when you need 2 image files, a JPEG
for viewing, and a RAW for editing.
• The image quality is fixed to [Fine] and the image size is
fixed to [L].
(Fine) File format: JPEG
The image is compressed in the JPEG format when recorded.
Since the compression rate of (Standard) is higher than
that of (Fine), the file size of is smaller than that
of . This will allow more files to be recorded on one
memory card, but the image quality will be lower.
(Standard)