76The Shooting MenuImage Quality and CompressionThe process of reducing the file size of a picture when storing it is called compression.In this camera, pictures are compressed and recorded as JPEG files.• The more a picture is compressed, the smaller the picture size becomes and the larger the num-ber of pictures that can be stored in memory or on a memory card. However, the quality of theimage is degraded and the reproducibility of the image’s fine areas is reduced.• The less a picture is compressed, the larger the picture size becomes and the smaller the numberof pictures that can be stored in memory or on a memory card. However, it maintains the pre-sentation of the image’s fine areas and increases the image quality.Image Quality SettingImage quality can be also selected in the assist modes ( 28) or scene modes ( 34).
