Sanyo VPC S5 Owners Manual - Page 54

CHANGING THE SHOOTING SETTINGS k Set the compression rate (still images and sequential shots only) Use the procedure below to set the compression rate. Even if the same resolution is used, you can change the compression setting to decrease the image data size so that you can capture more images, or increase the image data size for no loss in image quality. 1 Display the Shooting Setting Screen (see page 40), and select the compression menu. 2 Select the desired compression rate icon, and press the SET button. : Stores the data with a low compression (high quality). : Stores the data with normal compression (normal quality). COMPRESSION FINE NOTE About the resolution and compression settings i The image captured by a digital camera consists of a collection of small dots. The resolution refers to the number of these dots, and the greater the number, the higher the image quality. As the resolution increases, the size of the resulting data also increases, and the number of images that can be captured decreases. To compensate for this, this digital camera is able to compress the data. This digital camera uses JPEG compression. If JPEG compression is used, when the image is played back, an extremely small portion of it is lost. The higher the compression rate, the more of the original image is lost. Therefore, in the still image mode, this digital camera also allows you to store image data at extremely low compression to ensure that a minimum of the original image is lost. This is the mode. Since the image data is large when the mode is used, compared to compression, the digital camera requires more time both to store the data after the shutter release button is pressed and to display the image in the playback mode. 51 English