Record Mode; Still Picture Record Modes - Olympus CAMEDIA C-70 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.28.

Still picture record modes

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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
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Compression
Image size
3072 × 2304
2592 × 1944
2288 × 1712
2048 × 1536
1600 × 1200
1280 × 960
1024 × 768
640 × 480
Picture with high number of pixel
Picture with low number of pixel
Image becomes clearer
Uncom- Low com-
pressed pression
TIFF SHQ
SQ1
HIGH
JPEG
SQ2
HIGH
High com-
pression
HQ
SQ1
NORMAL
SQ2
NORMAL