4 Megapixel Digital Camera for Dummies

many cameras offer image quality settings such as good better and best these settings reflect the compression level of the photos that are saved in your camera in the JPEG file format compression refers to the amount of image your camera collects when taking a photo the lower the compression the larger the file size in the more detail you get in the photo higher compression eliminates some of the image data in order to reduce its size remember large files take up lots of memory space on your camera or PC on the cameras menu locate the quality setting press set use the arrow buttons to toggle through the quality menu and choose a setting press set here's a brief description of the quality settings available on many digital cameras including point-and-shoot and compact best gives you excellent picture quality with lots of detail you get large file sizes which will produce quality large pr