Canon A580 PowerShot A580 Camera User Guide - Page 65

63 Changing the Recording Pixels (Still Images) Available Shooting Modes 1 Select the recording pixels. 1. Press the button. 2. Use the or button to select and the or button to change the recording pixels. 3. Press the button. p. 190 Commonly Used Shooting Functions Approximate Values for Recording Pixels Recording Pixels Purpose* Large 8M 3264 × 2448 High Printing to about A3-size 297 × 420 mm (11.7 × 16.5 in.) Printing to about A4-size Medium 1 5M 2592 × 1944 210 × 297 mm (8.3 × 11.7 in.) Printing to about Letter-size 216 × 279 mm (8.5 × 11 in.) Medium 2 3M 2048 × 1536 Printing to about A5-size 148 × 210 mm (6 × 8.3 in.) Printing postcard-size prints Medium 3 2M 1600 × 1200 148 × 100 mm (6 × 4 in.) Printing L-size prints 119 × 89 mm (4.7 × 3.5 in.) Small 0.3M 640 × 480 Sending images as e-mail Low attachments or shoot more images. Date Stamp Printing date-stamped images (p. 22), in 2M 1600 × 1200 L-size (3.5 × 5 in.) or postcard-size (you can check the print area at a 3:2 aspect ratio as you shoot). Widescreen 3264 × 1832 Printing on wide size paper (you can check the composition at a 16:9 aspect ratio. Areas that will not be recorded appear on the LCD monitor as a black border.) : Approximate recording pixel numbers are shown. (M is short for megapixels.) * Paper sizes vary according to region.