Sony SLT-A58 α Handbook - Page 157

Camera Setup Camera Setup (Advanced Operations) Setting the aspect ratio and image quality Camera Setup (Advanced Operations) Aspect Ratio MENU button t ratio 1 t [Aspect Ratio] t Select the desired 3:2 Normal ratio. 16:9 HDTV ratio. Notes • [Aspect Ratio] cannot be set when the exposure mode is set to [Sweep Panorama]. Quality MENU button t 1 t [Quality] t Select the desired setting (RAW) (RAW & JPEG) (Fine) (Standard) File format: RAW (Records using the RAW compression format.) This format does not perform any digital processing on the images. Select this format to process images on a computer for professional purposes. • The image size is fixed to the maximum size. The image size is not displayed on the screen. File format: RAW (Records using the RAW compression format.) + JPEG A RAW image and a JPEG image are created at the same time. This is suitable when you need 2 image files, a JPEG for viewing, and a RAW for editing. • The image quality is fixed to [Fine] and the image size is fixed to [L]. File format: JPEG The image is compressed in the JPEG format when recorded. Since the compression rate of (Standard) is higher than that of (Fine), the file size of is smaller than that of . This will allow more files to be recorded on one memory card, but the image quality will be lower. Notes • [Quality] cannot be set when the exposure mode is set to [Sweep Panorama]. 157