Nikon D1X - Manual (Page 72)

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Understanding the Image-Quality Display
The current image-quality setting is displayed in the
rear control panel as shown at right. An image-qual-
ity setting of JPEG Normal is shown as NORM, a file
format of YCbCr-TIFF as CbCr, and an image type
of black-and-white as B/W.
AD
V
ANCED PHO
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GRAPHY—IMA
GE QU
ALITY
High
JPEG Fine
JPEG
Normal
JPEG
Basic
JPEG (1 : 4)
JPEG (1 : 8)
Image Quality and File Size
The approximate number of images that can be stored on a 96-MB memory card at
different combinations of image quality, image size, and file format is shown in the
following table (image type has no effect on file size and hence bears no relation to
the number of images that can be stored on a memor y card).
Image
quality
File format
Image
size
Approx. number of
images (96 MB card)*
Approx.
file size
11.2 MB
5.0 MB
8
17
* The actual file size (and hence number of images that can be stored on the memory
card) JPEG-compressed image will depend on the particular subject and composition. In
general the more detail present in an image, the larger the resulting JPEG file.
** Compressed fifty to sixty percent over RAW (uncompressed)
† Although the number of exposures remaining shown in the control panels is the same as
for RAW (uncompressed), images are compressed as they are saved, with the result that
a larger number of images can be stored on the memory card.
JPEG (1 : 16)
16.9 MB 5
7.5 MB 12
11
†
Large 2.8 MB 29
Medium 1.3 MB 66
Large 1.4 MB 59
Medium 640 KB 132
720 KB 118
320 KB 256
7.6 MB
**
RGB-TIFF
YCbCr-TIFF
RAW (uncompressed)
RAW (compressed)
Large
Medium
Large
Medium
–
Large
Medium
File format Image quality
Image type (black-and-
white images onl y)
Image size