Understanding Quality and Resolution
Keep in mind that with your camera you are generally going to get
beautiful digital pictures. But based on two factors, resolution and
quality, some pictures will be of a higher quality than others.
Instead of film, the camera places your pictures on a camera memory
card. These pictures are made up of pixels. The more pixels you have
(or the better the resolution) the more space you use on the camera
memory card.
To save space, you can compress each picture with the Quality setting.
When a picture is compressed, some color and detail information is
discarded. More compression means a lower quality picture. Less
compression means a better quality picture.
Together, quality and resolution dictate how many pictures you can fit on
your camera memory card.
q If the quality of your pictures is most important, use the Best
Quality setting, which results in little compression, and the High
Resolution setting. You may want to do this if you are printing
your pictures on a high-quality printer.
q If space on your camera memory card is most important, use the
Good or Better quality setting, which results in more compression,
and the Standard Resolution setting. You may want to do this if
you are using your pictures in a Web page or are sending them
through e-mail.
Remember that resolution and quality are two different things.
Resolution is the number of pixels in the picture. Quality is how much
you compress them.
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