Image Quality And Size - Nikon CoolPix 990 Manual

Image Quality and Size

Image quality and size together determine the file size of pho-
tographs taken with the camera. This in turn determines how
many photographs can be stored on a single memory card.
The number of images that can be stored at different combina-
tions of image quality and size is illustrated in the following
tables:
Full
MB MB
Quality 8 16
HI 0 1
5 10
FINE
NORMAL 10 20
BASIC 19 40
Number of images that can be stored on 8 MB and 16 MB memory cards
Full
Quality
HI 10
FINE 61
121
NORMAL
239
BASIC
Number of images that can be stored on 96 MB memory card
Size
XGA VGA
MB MB MB MB
8 16 8 16 8
— — — —
19 40 48 100
38 79 91 187
73 151 161 333
Size
XGA VGA
— —
239 588
466 1101
885 1952
Image Quality
To reduce memory requirements, images are compressed us-
ing JPEG compression, which can result in changes in image
quality. Image quality is set using the
Press
3 : 2
MB MB
16
0 1
Image quality will cycle through the following settings:
5 11
Setting
11 23
HI
22 46
(M-REC
only)
FINE
3 : 2
11
NORMAL
69
BASIC
137
269
Confirm image quality
setting in control panel
or LCD monitor
NORMAL NORMAL
P 1/60 F2.7 10
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File format How it works
No compression, maximum
TIFF
File size reduced to roughly
JPEG
File size reduced to roughly
JPEG
File size reduced to roughly
JPEG
37
button.
quality
1
/
4
of original
1
/
8
of original
1
/
16
of original