Tag Archive for 'Quality setting (camera)'

Quality setting

When you save images in the JPEG format in your camera, you have a choice of ‘quality’ settings. This refers to the level of JPEG compression applied. ‘High’ quality images have least compression but the best quality, and also create [...]

JPEG compression

Software technology used to minimise photo file size. The more you compress a JPEG image, the more visible the compression artefacts become. Digital cameras generally offer three different compression ratios or ‘quality’ settings. ‘High’ or ‘Fine’ quality uses the least [...]

JPEG

Usual file format for digital photos. The JPEG file format uses what’s called ‘lossy’ compression to produce small, manageable files from digital images. All cameras can save images in the JPEG format, and at different quality (compression) settings.

File size

The storage space taken up by the file or its size in megapixels. The file size of a digital image is important because it governs how many shots you can save on your camera’s memory card. JPEG files are smaller [...]

Compression

Software processing system which reduces file size. The most common example is the JPEG file format, which can compress a digital photo into a file of just 2-5Mb and allows many photos to be stored on a memory card. Uncompressed, [...]