Sony DSC T30: A question about SETTINGS

[lorna]

My Sony DSC T30 arrived today and I am working on the settings. (Yes, the battery has been fully charged.)

I have a 2 gig Memory Stick because I want to set the camera to expose for FINE images for if and when I decide to print them. The max size I will probably print at is 8" x 10".

QUESTION: Therefore, what do I select: 7M? 5M? 3M? I selected 5M but maybe I should have chosen 7M. (The pamphlet instructions are not clear to me.)


—Lorna
http://web.mac.com/lorna6
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[Sintares]

I would always shoot at the highest resolution ie 7mp and the highest quality ie least compression.

The higher the resolution the more you can crop away ( to better frame the subject or get rid of distracting elements ) and still have enough pixels left to get a decent print, plus you never know when you might capture an image you want to turn into a poster print ...

Memory is cheap, you can burn excess photos onto cds costing pennies and the cards themselves are pretty cheap these days too.

[lorna]

Sintares, hey, thank you :) I just now changed the setting to 7M. This is the whole reason why I bought the 2 gig Memory Stick.

—Lorna
http://web.mac.com/lorna6
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I would always shoot at the highest resolution ie 7mp and the highest quality ie least compression.

The higher the resolution the more you can crop away ( to better frame the subject or get rid of distracting elements ) and still have enough pixels left to get a decent print, plus you never know when you might capture an image you want to turn into a poster print ...

Memory is cheap, you can burn excess photos onto cds costing pennies and the cards themselves are pretty cheap these days too.