Sony DCR-IP5E/IP7E Operating Instructions Manual page 145

Using a "Memory Stick"
– introduction
Differences in image quality mode
Recorded images are compressed in the JPEG
format before being stored in memory. The
memory capacity allotted to each image varies
depending on the selected image quality mode.
Details are shown in the table below. (The image
size is 640 480, regardless of image quality
mode. The data size before compression is about
600 KB.)
Image quality mode
FINE (FINE)
STANDARD (STD)
Image quality mode indicator
The image quality mode indicator is not
displayed during playback.
Memory capacity
About 100 KB
About 60 KB
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