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The Shooting Menu (The Common Shooting
Options)
Image Quality
Enter shooting mode* M d button M shooting mode menu icon M Image
quality M k button
* The image quality can be set in any shooting mode other than Movie manual. 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.
Option
a
Fine
Normal
b
(default setting)
l
RAW
j
RAW + Fine
k
RAW + Normal
B
Notes About Image Quality
Image size is fixed at i 4608×3456 when Image quality is set to RAW.
RAW images cannot be captured in the following shooting modes:
- Scene modes
- Moon mode
- Bird-watching 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 (A75).
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The Shooting Menu (The Common Shooting Options)
Finer image quality than Normal.
Compression ratio of about 1:4
Normal image quality, suitable for most applications.
Compression ratio of about 1:8
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.
File format: RAW (NRW) (Nikon's own format)
Two images are recorded, one RAW image and one fine-
quality JPEG image.
Two images are recorded, one RAW image and one normal-
quality JPEG image.
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