Casio EX-F1 Owners Manual - Page 29

Changing the Image Size (Size) . Pixels A digital camera image is a collection of small dots called "pixels". The more pixels there are in an image, the more detail there will be. However, you generally can do with fewer pixels when printing an image (L size) through a print service, attaching an image to e-mail, when viewing the image on a computer, etc. Pixel . About image sizes The size of an image indicates how many pixels it contains, and is expressed as horizontal pixelsxvertical pixels. 12816x2112 size image = Approximately 6 million pixels 2640x480 size image = Approximately 300,000 pixels 640 2 2816 1 Image Size Selection Tips Unit: pixels Note that larger images have more pixels, so they take up more memory space. Large Number of Pixels * More detail, but takes up more memory. Best when you plan to print large-size prints (such as A3 size). Small Number of Pixels * Less detail, but takes up less memory. Best when you want to send images by e-mail, etc. 2112 480 • For information about image size, image quality, and number of images that can be stored, see page 177. • For information about movie image size, see page 87. • For information about resizing existing snapshots, see page 113. 29 Snapshot Tutorial