Kodak's DC240/DC280 manual talks of two different image settings: resolution and quality. Resolution makes sense to me. It's the pixel count. They explain that, too. They don't explain picture quality settings at all. They offer three quality settings, good, better, and best, but don't tell you what the difference is, other than file size and picture quality.

What does the Kodak quality setting control?

Thanks for your help!

Bob

-- Bob Neidorff (neidorff@ti.com), June 16, 2000

Answers

Bob - That controls the level of compression. Most every digital camera uses JPEG compression, which causes some image information to be lost.

It's a capacity vs. quality issue. Higher compression allows you to store more images, but they're poorer quality.

I'm pretty new at this stuff myself, but I'd recommend taking some test pictures at each setting and having some prints made. Ofotos.com, shutterfly.com, pix.com, yahoo photos, etc. are all offering free prints for new customers.

So take some pictures, make some prints, and compare them. Then you'll have a good idea regarding the quality of the different compression levels of your camera.

-- Greg Philmon (gphilmon@yahoo.com), June 16, 2000.