Image Quality - Minolta Dimage E201 Instruction Manual

RECORDING-MODE MENU

IMAGE QUALITY

This digital camera has four image-quality modes: super-fine (S.FINE), fine (FINE),
standard (STD.), and economy (ECON.). Always select the desired image quality before
recording the image.
Image quality controls the rate of image compression and image-file size, but has no
effect on the number of pixels in the image. The lower the rate of compression, the
higher the image quality and the larger the file size. The super-fine mode will produce
the highest quality images and the largest image files; the economy mode will produce
the lowest quality images and the smallest files.
The standard image-quality setting is sufficient for normal usage. If high image quality
is important, use the super-fine or fine modes. However, if economic use of the
CompactFlash card is more important than image quality, use the economy mode. One
CompactFlash card can contain images with differing image qualities.
If the image quality is changed, the camera will automatically calculate how many
images at the chosen setting can be written to the CompactFlash card. The number of
images which may be stored on a particular CompactFlash card is displayed on the
frame counter on the data panel.
The image-quality setting will not reset when the camera is turned off. Image quality
must be reset manually. The image-quality setting is displayed on the data panel on the
top of the camera.
Image-quality Modes
Super-fine
Fine
Standard
Economy
Rate of Compression
1:1 (No Compression)
1:5 (Approx.)
1:13 (Approx.)
1:26 (Approx.)
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