Image Quality and Size
Image quality and size together determine the file size of pho-
tographs taken with the camera. This in turn determines how
many photographs can be stored on a single memory card.
The number of images that can be stored at different combina-
tions of image quality and size is illustrated in the following
tables:
P 1/60 F2.7
NORMAL
NORMAL
[
10
]
Basic Photo
gra
ph
y:
Ima
g
e Quality and Siz
e
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Setting
File format
How it works
Image Quality
To reduce memory requirements, images are compressed us-
ing JPEG compression, which can result in changes in image
quality. Image quality is set using the
button.
Quality
Size
Full
XGA
VGA
3 : 2
HI
10
—
—
11
FINE
61
239
588
69
NORMAL
121
466
1101
137
BASIC
239
885
1952
269
Number of images that can be stored on 96 MB memory card
Press
Confirm image quality
setting in control panel
or LCD monitor
HI
(M-REC
only)
TIFF
No compression, maximum
quality
FINE
JPEG
File size reduced to roughly
1
/
4
of original
NORMAL
JPEG
File size reduced to roughly
1
/
8
of original
BASIC
JPEG
File size reduced to roughly
1
/
16
of original
Image quality will cycle through the following settings:
Quality
HI
FINE
NORMAL
BASIC
Size
XGA
VGA
3 : 2
8
MB
16
MB
8
MB
16
MB
8
MB
16
MB
8
MB
16
MB
Number of images that can be stored on 8 MB and 16 MB memory cards
—
19
38
73
—
48
91
161
0
5
11
22
1
10
20
40
—
40
79
151
—
100
187
333
1
11
23
46
Full
0
5
10
19
