Which is the bigger deal? Well,
consider this: you can always buy another memory card to store extra images, and memory cards
have gotten quite cheap. But once saved at a lower resolution, you can never buy back the lost
image quality at any price. If you??™re only using your pictures for low-impact applications such
as web pages and e-mail, small differences in image quality may not mean a lot to you. But if
you??™re planning to print your pictures or keep them for posterity, even a little color fringing or
digital noise can ruin your memories.
Be sure to check your camera menu for details on setting image quality and resolution
because every camera is a little bit different. Some cameras make it easy to distinguish between
resolution and image quality because they are set with two different controls. Other cameras
offer these two controls in a single, somewhat confusing menu selection. You may be forced to
work with a camera menu that gives you a choice of SHQ, HQ, and SQ (Super High Quality,
High Quality, and Standard Quality), for instance, where both SHQ and HQ are the same high
resolution, but with different amounts of JPG compression. In the following illustration, you can
see how a FujiFilm camera on the left limits you to choosing only what resolution you can work
with, while the Olympus camera on the right uses SQ and SHQ to distinguish between image
quality.
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