Record Mode; Still Picture Record Modes - Olympus CAMEDIA C-7070 Wide Zoom Advanced Manual

Record mode

You can select a record mode in which to take pictures or shoot movies.
Select the best record mode for your purpose (printing, editing on a
computer, website editing, etc.). For information on the image sizes for
each record mode and the memory capacity of the card, see the table on
P. 35.

Still picture record modes

Record mode depicts the image size and compression rate of pictures you wish to
record.
Pictures are made from thousands of dots (pixels). If a picture with relatively few
pixels is enlarged, it looks like a mosaic. A picture with many pixels is denser and
clearer, but requires a larger file size (data size), decreasing the number of pictures
that can be saved on a card. Increasing the compression rate reduces the file size,
but makes the pictures appear grainy.
(Normal image modes
Application
Select according
to print size
For small-sized
prints and
websites
Compression
Image size
3072 × 2304
2592 × 1944
2288 × 1712
2048 × 1536
1600 × 1200
1280 × 960
1024 × 768
640 × 480
Picture with high number of pixels
Picture with low number of pixels
Image becomes clearer
Uncom- Low com-
pressed pression
SHQ
SQ1
HIGH
TIFF
SQ2
HIGH
2
High com-
pression
HQ
SQ1
NORMAL
SQ2
NORMAL
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