Kodak DC260 - Manual (Page 19)

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Quality
You may set your camera to take pictures with a Good, Better, or Best Quality
setting. The Quality setting indicates how much the picture is compressed to save
space on the memory card.
A brief detour to discuss quality and resolution...
Keep in mind that with your DC220 and DC260 Cameras you’re generally going
to get beautiful digital pictures. But based on two factors, resolution and
compression
, some pictures will be of a higher quality than others.
It’s basically quality versus quantity when it comes to pictures.
Instead of film, a digital camera places your pictures on a memory card. The
pictures are made up of pixels. Stand really close to your TV—so close that your
mother would yell at you if she saw you. Those little dots that make up the
picture are pixels. It’s the more the merrier when it comes to pixels and the
quality of your digital pictures. But everything has its price. The more pixels you
have (or the better the resolution
in other words) the more space you use on
the camera memory card.
To save space, you can compress each picture. 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, compression (or quality ) and resolution dictate how many pictures
you can fit on your memory card.
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If the quality of your pictures is most important, use high quality (which
results in little compression) and high resolution. You may want to do this
if you will be printing your pictures on a high quality printer.
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If space on your memory card is most important, use a lower quality
(which results in more compression) and standard resolution. You may
want to do this if you will be using your pictures in a Web page.
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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.