The Digital Photography Companion

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CONTINUOUS SHOOTING MODE

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Compression levels: In this menu the “S” stands for “superfine,”

which is this camera’s highest quality setting.

Some cameras also provide raw or TIFF format options. ese settings don’t use com-

pression and produce very large files. Raw, in particular, is a good option for photog-

raphers wanting to extract the maximum quality from their digital cameras. For more

information, see Work with Raw Files in Chapter 4.

e rule of thumb, then, is to capture at the highest-quality JPEG settings possible, and

consider raw if your camera offers that option and you’re willing to process raw files on

the computer afterward.

Continuous Shooting Mode

See Burst/Continuous Shooting Mode earlier in this chapter.

Deleting Images

See Erasing Images later in this chapter.

Digital Zoom

Unlike the optical zoom on your camera, which consists of actual glass elements, the

digital zoom is a function of the camera’s electronics. By enabling the digital zoom, you

can increase the magnification of your lens to bring your subjects even closer than you

can with just the optics alone.

e trade-off is that you compromise image quality when you use the digital zoom. Since it’s a

function of the camera’s electronics and not of the actual lens, the digital zoom is really emulat-

ing the telephoto effect instead of actually recording the image at that optical magnification. ...