Canon PowerShot G9 - Manual (Page 81)

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Approximate Values for Recording Pixels
: Approximate number of recording pixels. (M is short for megapixels.)
* Paper sizes vary according to region.
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Approximate Values for Compression Settings
Recording Pixels Purpose*
Large 12M 4000 × 3000 High
Low
Printing to about A2 size (Approx.
420 × 594 mm (16.5 × 23.4 in.))
Medium 1 8M 3264 × 2448
Printing to about A3 size (Approx.
297 × 420 mm (11.7 × 16.5 in.))
Medium 2 5M 2592 × 1944
Printing to about A4 size (Approx.
210 × 297 mm (8.3 × 11.7 in.))
Printing to about Letter size prints
216 × 279 mm (8.5 × 11 in.)
Medium 3 2M 1600 × 1200
Printing postcard-size prints 148
× 100 mm (6 × 4 in.)
Printing L-size prints 119 × 89
mm (4.7 × 3.5 in.)
Small 0.3M 640 × 480
Sending images as e-mail
attachments or shooting more
images
Widescreen 4000 × 2248
Printing wide size prints (Images are
recorded with 16:9 aspect ratios. Areas
not recorded will display as black bars
on the LCD monitor.)
RAW 4000 × 3000 p. 80
Compression Purpose
Superfine High Quality
Normal
Shoot higher quality images
Fine Shoot normal quality images
Normal Shoot more images
z See Memory Cards and Estimated Capacities (p. 259).
z See Image Data Sizes (Estimated) (p. 261).