Nikon 990 - Manual (Page 37)

Image Quality and Size
Image quality and size together determine the file size of pho-
tographs taken with the camera. This in turn determines how
many photographs can be stored on a single memory card.
The number of images that can be stored at different combina-
tions of image quality and size is illustrated in the following
tables:
P 1/60 F2.7
NORMAL NORMAL
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Setting File format How it works
Image Quality
To reduce memory requirements, images are compressed us-
ing JPEG compression, which can result in changes in image
quality. Image quality is set using the button.
Quality
Size
Full XGA VGA 3 : 2
HI 10 — — 11
FINE 61 239 588 69
NORMAL 121 466 1101 137
BASIC 239 885 1952 269
Number of images that can be stored on 96 MB memory card
Press
Confirm image quality
setting in control panel
or LCD monitor
HI
(M-REC
only)
TIFF
No compression, maximum
quality
FINE JPEG
File size reduced to roughly 1 /
4
of original
NORMAL JPEG
File size reduced to roughly 1 /
8
of original
BASIC JPEG
File size reduced to roughly 1 /
16
of original
Image quality will cycle through the following settings:
Quality
HI
FINE
NORMAL
BASIC
Size
XGA VGA 3 : 2
8 MB 16 MB 8 MB 16 MB 8 MB 16 MB 8 MB 16 MB
Number of images that can be stored on 8 MB and 16 MB memory cards
—
19
38
73
—
48
91
161
0
5
11
22
1
10
20
40
—
40
79
151
—
100
187
333
1
11
23
46
Full
0
5
10
19