Digital Camera

aardvaak

I have a Kodak Pixpro AZ251 Digital Camera the quality settings are - Normal, Best & Fine.
I use it on the Best setting.
Can someone please tell me why I would use the fine setting as when I selected it the storage on the SD card increased by about a third so I thought it can not be producing better quality photos?
So what is it for?

System

Take a photo in best, take a photo in fine. Transfer both to your PC and zoom in and you'll see the difference.

aardvaak

Tarambor wrote: »

Take a photo in best, take a photo in fine. Transfer both to your PC and zoom in and you'll see the difference.

So what do you think is best?

neilmcl

The quality settings in order are Normal (lowest), Fine, and Best.

It's all to do with the amount of compression used in the final image, clearly Best will give you the highest quality image but will also take up the most space.

aardvaak

neilmcl wrote: »

The quality settings in order are Normal (lowest), Fine, and Best.

It's all to do with the amount of compression used in the final image, clearly Best will give you the highest quality image but will also take up the most space.

Thank you for your reply

agrinnall

aardvaak wrote: »

..when I selected it the storage on the SD card increased by about a third so I thought it can not be producing better quality photos?

So a 3MB photo using Best is a 4MB photo using Fine. Why don't you think that would be higher quality?


[I've read neil's post but either he has misunderstood what was written in the OP or aardvark has confused us]

chrisbur

agrinnall wrote: »

So a 3MB photo using Best is a 4MB photo using Fine. Why don't you think that would be higher quality?


[I've read neil's post but either he has misunderstood what was written in the OP or aardvark has confused us]

I believe that what the OP meant by "storage on the SD card increased by about a third" was that they could now fit more pictures onto the SD card ie picture size was now smaller.
OP has added a little to the confusion by listing the qualities in the wrong order as neilmcl says they are (in order of improving quality) Normal Fine Best from the instruction manual....
"There are three options for picture quality:
• Best (Average File Size: 4.0MB)
• Fine (Average File Size: 2.5MB)
• Normal (Average File Size: 2.0MB)"

aardvaak

agrinnall wrote: »

So a 3MB photo using Best is a 4MB photo using Fine. Why don't you think that would be higher quality?


[I've read neil's post but either he has misunderstood what was written in the OP or aardvark has confused us]

The Best is 4MB & the Fine is 2.5MB

EssexExile

The best setting gives the best pictures. The pictures with the fine setting are fine. I'm not sure what's normal about low quality pictures.