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KODAK DC215 Zoom Digital Camera
Understanding Quality and Resolution

Keep in mind that with your camera you are generally going to get beautiful digital pictures. But based on two factors, resolution and quality, some pictures will be of a higher quality than others.

Instead of film, the camera places your pictures on a camera memory card. These pictures are made up of pixels. The more pixels you have (or the better the resolution) the more space you use on the camera memory card.

To save space, you can compress each picture with the Quality setting. When a picture is compressed, some color and detail information is discarded. More compression means a lower quality picture. Less compression means a better quality picture.

Together, quality and resolution dictate how many pictures you can fit on your camera memory card.

• If the quality of your pictures is most important, use the Best Quality setting, which results in little compression, and the High Resolution setting. You may want to do this if you are printing your pictures on a high-quality printer.
• If space on your camera memory card is most important, use the Good or Better quality setting, which results in more compression, and the Standard Resolution setting. You may want to do this if you are using your pictures in a Web page or are sending them through e-mail.

Remember that resolution and quality are two different things. Resolution is the number of pixels in the picture. Quality is how much you compress them.

Owner's Manual Contents
Main Table of Contents
Customizing Your Pictures
Introduction | Understanding Quality & Resolution | Adjusting Quality | Adjusting Resolution | Adding a Template | Adding the Date | Selecting Image File Type | Setting a Quickview | Memory Card-Formatting | Adjusting Video Out Signal | Selecting Language | Viewing Camera Information