2 megapixels? Is this right?

[scolniye]

maybe i'm not understanding something. But how much memory should the highest resolution on the nz90 take? everytime i take a picture on the highest resolution, it's only taking up around 400kb to 500kb. it this right? does anyone understand the relationship or ratio between megapixel and kilobytes? is there a higher setting on the nz90 that i'm not aware of?

[Rosenkrantz]

Ahhh see the pixel resolution of the file is approx 2 megapixels or 1600x1200 ppi. Depending on the jpg compression, the file will take between 300-500K of space.

[eric2002]

-also each photo setting has 3 sub settings, ...for every size photo you take, you can set the compression at 3 quality levels. Thus, the highest quality setting would make for the largest file size, the lowest quality the lowest file size. At the highest setting my photos are around 700-850k in size.

[AnthonyM]

Originally posted by scolniye
maybe i'm not understanding something. But how much memory should the highest resolution on the nz90 take? everytime i take a picture on the highest resolution, it's only taking up around 400kb to 500kb. it this right? does anyone understand the relationship or ratio between megapixel and kilobytes? is there a higher setting on the nz90 that i'm not aware of?

At 400 to 500k it sounds like the camera was set too the "standard" quality setting and not "fine" (the highest quality setting). A picture taken at 1600x1200 resolution and standard quality on my NZ90 is generally around 400K. A picture with the same resolution but with the quality setting set too fine is usually around 760k.

- Anthony

[scolniye]

thanks guys for clearing that up. i didn't know there were 3 settings within the 3 settings. thanks also for the information on the compression of jpegs. i guess little by little, thanks to your helping me, i'm finding more things about my nz90. the more i learn about it, the more i'm falling in love with it. thanks!:cool: