Adjusting The Image Quality And Exposure; Record Mode - Olympus C5000 - 5MP Digital Camera Reference Manual

6 Adjusting the image quality and exposure

Record mode

You can select a record mode in which to take pictures or shoot movies.
Choose the best record mode for your purpose (printing, editing on a PC,
website editing, etc.). For details of the number of pictures storable on the
card and resolutions in different record modes, refer to the tables on P.92.
Application
Select for the
print size
For small-sized
print and website
Resolution
The number of pixels (horizontal × vertical) used when saving an image. If the
image will be printed, higher resolutions (larger numbers) are recommended
so that the image will be clearer. However, higher resolutions make the file
size (amount of data) larger, so the number of pictures that can be saved will
be fewer.
File format
In record modes other than TIFF, images are compressed in the JPEG
format. The compression rate also varies in each mode. (Movies are in
Motion JPEG format (.mov).)
Compression
In record modes other than TIFF, image data are compressed. The higher the
compression, the less clear the image will be.
Compression
Number of pixels
2560 × 1920
2272 × 1704
2048 × 1536
1600 × 1200
1280 × 960
1024 × 768
640 × 480
Image becomes clearer
Non Low
compression compression
SHQ
SQ1
HIGH
TIFF
SQ2
HIGH
High
compression
HQ
SQ1
NORMAL
SQ2
NORMAL
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