Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1 Digital Camera Review

Picture Quality / Size Options (7.5)
The R1 lists its image sizes in megapixels. They are 10, 7, 5, 3 and 1 megapixels, corresponding to pixel dimensions of 3888 x 2592, 3264 x 2176, 2784 x 1856, 2160 x 1440 and 1296 x 864. The 1 megapixel file is a little big for emailing, so users ought to sample it down before clogging friends' mailboxes. The R1 calls its two levels of JPEG compression Fine and Standard. Fine is better than Standard. The R1 also writes RAW files, and the uncompressed files are worth the trouble – the trouble being that they weigh in at a chunky 20 megabytes, a good four or five times larger than the JPEGs.

Picture Effects Mode (7.75)
The R1 can shoot in Black and White or Sepia, as well as color, and offers a choice of color spaces. The user can set the camera for Adobe RGB, vivid (which records in sRGB), or standard sRGB.

The R1 also has settings for contrast, saturation and sharpness, all of which can be set to high, low and normal.