Nikon D1X - Manual (Page 69)

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Image Quality
The image quality setting controls image quality and image format, which includes
image type (color or black-and-white) and image size (in pixels).
Image quality settings can be chosen from the image-quality
sub-menu, which can be displayed by highlighting Image
Quality in the shooting menu and pressing the multi selec-
tor to the r ight.
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Image Quality
Quality/High
YCbCr
RGB
NEF(RAW)
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Image Quality
Quality
Color
Resolution
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NORM
OK
Image Quality
Quality
High
JPEG Fine
JPEG Normal
JPEG Basic
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The following options are available:
Option Description
Color Choose whether images will be recorded in color or in black-and-white.
Resolution Choose from Large (3,008
×
1,960 pixels) or Medium (2,000
×
1,312 pixels)
Quality
Choose the amount photogra phs will be compressed. Four options are
available: High, JPEG Fine, JPEG Normal, and JPEG Basic . Selecting High
gives you a fur ther choice of two or (depending on the option selected
in Custom Setting 28) three file formats: YCbCr-TIFF, RGB-TIFF, and RAW.
Choosing the Compression Ratio
Highlighting Quality in the image-quality menu and pressing
the multi selector to the right displays a menu of image qual-
ity (compression r atio) settings.
The Quality menu contains the options listed below.
High
Highlighting High in the image-quality menu and pressing
the multi selector to the right displays a menu of file-for mat
options. HI-quality images can be stored as uncompressed
TIFF or RAW data or (depending on the option selected
using Custom Setting 28) as RAW data compressed using a
“lossless” algorithm that has no effect on image quality.
For more information on:
pg. 188 The shooting menu