Ok. Now we're talking about the image quality with the Canon 40D and how to select that. There are lots of different factors to consider when you're setting up the image quality. Obviously, the higher the quality of the image, the larger those files are going to be and the fewer shots you are actually going to be able to take. But, on the other hand, you might want to have a really high quality shot and know that you are only going to take a few. In that case, you are definitely going to want to shoot in raw mode or high quality jpeg mode, or maybe both at the same time. To set the quality of your image, what you're going to do is, press the menu button on the top left side of your 40D, and then use the main dial to scroll through all of your options. Right now we're in a advanced shooting mode. We're in this mode so that we have more options. And, what I'm going to do is, in the first menu here, scroll down to the quality sub menu. It's actually at the very top. And then just select that, press "set" on the quick control dial. And then we have all these options in the quality menu here. These are all jpeg settings. And, at the top of the screen, on the right side here, you have a couple of things. One, you have the dimensions of the picture that you're going to take, and then right next to it in a bracket is a number which indicates how many pictures can be taken in that mode. So, as we scroll down here, we notice, let's see, actually I'm going to scroll this way. Starting with that high quality jpeg, we have 876 photos. Now we have 999 photos, and then when we start adding camera raw; this setting actually is raw plus high quality jpeg. It records two images at the same time. Both of the same dimension. And then if we scroll all the way to the end here, we can just record a single file image, a raw image, or a smaller, what's called s-raw, which is, it's the same raw data from the camera, but it's a little bit smaller file. Camera raw is a good file quality to shoot in because it gives you a lot of options in post, when you're processing the images. It just saves the original data that was captured to the sensor. But, you might want to shoot a few more pictures than 200 on a 400GB card, and in that case, go ahead, it might be better to just select a little bit lower quality image. What I'm going to do is just go ahead and stick with the high quality jpeg. 876 photos is enough for me. So I'm going to go ahead and press "set". And then to exit from this menu, I'm going to press "menu". And then I'm ready to start shooting.
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