Canon SX10IS PowerShot SX10 IS Camera User Guide - Page 83

Commonly Used Shooting Functions 81 Approximate Values for Recording Pixels Recording Pixels Purpose* Large 10M 3648 × 2736 High Printing to about A2 size (Approx. 420 × 594 mm (16.5 × 23.4 in.)) Medium 1 6M 2816 × 2112 Printing to about A3 size (Approx. 297 × 420 mm (11.7 × 16.5 in.)) Medium 2 4M 2272 × 1704 Printing to about A4 size (Approx. 210 × 297 mm (8.3 × 11.7 in.)) Printing to about Letter size prints 216 × 279 mm (8.5 × 11 in.) Medium 3 2M 1600 × 1200 Printing postcard-size prints 148 × 100 mm (6 × 4 in.) Printing L-size prints 119 × 89 mm (4.7 × 3.5 in.) Small Sending images as e-mail 0.3M 640 × 480 attachments or shooting more Low images Widescreen 3648 × 2048 Printing wide size prints (Images are recorded with 16:9 aspect ratios. Areas not recorded will display as black bars on the LCD monitor.) : Approximate recording pixel numbers are shown. M is short for megapixels. * Paper sizes vary according to region. Approximate Values for Compression Settings Compression Purpose Superfine Fine High Quality Shoot higher quality images. Shoot normal quality images. Normal Normal Shoot more images. See Memory Cards, Estimated Capacities and Image Data Sizes (Estimated) (p. 274).