Olympus SP 500 SP-500 UZ Advanced Manual (English) - Page 25

Tips before you start taking pictures Record mode You can select a record mode in which to take pictures or shoot movies. Select the best record mode for your purpose (printing, editing on a computer, website editing, etc.). For information on the image sizes for each record mode and the number of storable still pictures/movie recording time, see the tables on P. 27 and 28. 2 Still picture record modes Still pictures (other than those in raw data format) are recorded in JPEG format. Record mode depicts the image size and compression rate of your pictures. Pictures are made from thousands of dots (pixels). If a picture with relatively few pixels is enlarged, it looks like a mosaic. Pictures with more pixels are denser and clearer but require more space (larger file size), thus decreasing the number of pictures that can be saved. Though a high compression rate results in a small file size, this also produces a grainy look. Picture with high number of pixels Picture with low number of pixels (Normal image modes Image becomes clearer Image size becomes larger Application Image size Compression Low com- High compression pression 2816 × 2112 SHQ HQ 2592 × 1944 Select according to print size 2288 × 1712 2048 × 1536 1600 × 1200 SQ1 SQ1 HIGH NORMAL 1280 × 960 For small-sized prints and websites 1024 × 768 640 × 480 SQ2 SQ2 HIGH NORMAL 25