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6 Adjusting the image quality and exposure
Record mode
You can select a record mode in which to take pictures or shoot movies.
Choose the best record mode for your purpose (printing, editing on a PC,
website editing, etc.). For details of the number of pictures storable on the
card and resolutions in different record modes, refer to the tables on P.92.
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Resolution
The number of pixels (horizontal × vertical) used when saving an image. If the
image will be printed, higher resolutions (larger numbers) are recommended
so that the image will be clearer. However, higher resolutions make the file
size (amount of data) larger, so the number of pictures that can be saved will
be fewer.
z
File format
In record modes other than TIFF, images are compressed in the JPEG
format. The compression rate also varies in each mode. (Movies are in
Motion JPEG format (.mov).)
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Compression
In record modes other than TIFF, image data are compressed. The higher the
compression, the less clear the image will be.
Image becomes clearer
Application
Compression
Number of pixels
Non
compression
Low
compression
High
compression
Select for the
print size
2560 × 1920
TIFF
SHQ
HQ
2272 × 1704
SQ1
HIGH
SQ1
NORMAL
2048 × 1536
1600 × 1200
1280 × 960
SQ2
HIGH
SQ2
NORMAL
1024 × 768
For small-sized
print and website
640 × 480
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