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The shooting menu (common across shooting modes), Image quality – Nikon COOLPIX P950 Digital Camera User Manual

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Using the menu

The shooting menu (common across shooting modes)

The shooting menu (common across shooting

modes)

Image quality

Set the image quality (compression ratio) used when saving images.

Lower compression ratios result in higher quality images, but the number of images

that can be saved is reduced.

Shooting mode*

button

Image quality

button

* The image quality can be set in any shooting mode other than Movie manual. The

setting is also applied to other shooting modes (except shooting mode and [

Easy

panorama

] scene mode).

Option

Description

Fine

Finer image quality than [

Normal

].

Compression ratio of about 1:4

Normal

(default setting)

Normal image quality, suitable for most applications.

Compression ratio of about 1:8

RAW

Raw data from the image sensor are saved without additional

processing. You can use a computer to change settings that were

set during shooting such as white balance and contrast.

File format: RAW (NRW), Nikon’s own format

RAW + Fine

Two images are recorded at the same time, one RAW image and one

fine-quality JPEG image.

RAW +

Normal

Two images are recorded at the same time, one RAW image and one

normal-quality JPEG image.

Notes about [Image quality]

[

Image size

] is fixed at [

4608×3456

] when [

Image quality

] is set to [

RAW

].