The pictures in the DC265 Quality Comparison Series were shot at each of the three quality settings available on the DC265, for standard, medium and high resolution, for a total of nine combinations.

Resolution settings vary the number of pixels used to create the image.

• Higher resolution provides more detail and better print quality.
• Lower resolution provides more picture capacity on the memory card, but sacrifices some detail.

• The advantage of less compression is that it provides the best picture quality.
• The advantage of more compression is smaller file size*, enabling you to fit more pictures on your camera's COMPACTFLASH memory card. But the higher compression settings sacrifice some picture quality.

We've carefully chosen the various quality settings on the DC265 Zoom camera to give users a wide range of flexibility when making quality vs. file size decisions, but to also insure that results will be acceptable at all settings. The pictures below are cropped without modification from the original camera files. The differences between the quality settings are subtle.

We encourage you to interpret the differences between the original pictures in the way that is most meaningful to you. Download the original files and evaluate them by using them in the way you typically use digital pictures (e.g., print them, install them as wallpaper, etc.).

The pictures below are 100 x 100 pixel portions of the image at left. The table shows the resolution and quality settings, as well as the resulting approximate number of pictures that will fit on the 16MB COMPACTFLASH card included with the DC265 Camera.