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The Shooting Menu (The Common Shooting Options)
Image Quality
* The image quality can be set in any shooting mode. The setting is also applied to other
shooting modes (except shooting mode
M
and
Easy panorama
scene mode).
Set the image quality (compression ratio) used when saving images.
Lower compression ratios result in higher quality images, but the number of images
that can be saved is reduced.
B
Notes About Image Quality
•
RAW images cannot be captured in the following shooting modes:
- Scene modes
- Night landscape mode
- Night landscape portrait mode
- Landscape mode
- Creative mode
If you change the shooting mode to any of the above shooting modes when a RAW
image quality has been selected, the image quality will change to
Fine
or
Normal
.
•
This function may not be available to use in combination with other functions (
76).
The Shooting Menu (The Common Shooting
Options)
Enter shooting mode*
M
d
button
M
shooting mode menu icon
M
Image
quality
M
k
button
Option
Description
a
Fine
Finer image quality than
Normal
.
Compression ratio of about 1:4
b
Normal
(default setting)
Normal image quality, suitable for most applications.
Compression ratio of about 1:8
l
RAW
Raw data from the image sensor are saved without
additional processing. You can use a computer to change
settings that were set during shooting such as white balance
and contrast.
•
Image size
is fixed at
q
5184×3888
File format: RAW (NRW), Nikon’s own format
j
RAW + Fine
Two images are recorded, one RAW image and one fine-
quality JPEG image.
k
RAW + Normal
Two images are recorded, one RAW image and one normal-
quality JPEG image.