Fine Vs. Superfine???

I'm quite confused on which picture quality settings to use. Are there significant differences between the fine and superfine settings?

I always use the Superfine setting but many have reported that you can get good results with the Fine; I'd think that would be ideal for travelling as you'd get more images from your card and still maintain good quality.

I doubt you'd notice any difference until you made enlargements beyond 8x10. I use the Superfine setting simply because you just never know when you'll need to do some cropping or if someone wants an 11x14. I can easily resize any image in Paint Shop Pro and now have two 512 MB cards, so I don't worry too much about limiting myself for storage space.

If quality is important, I'd shoot RAW first. If you're
snapshooting and running out of space, then forget
JPG superfine and go straight to fine.

Generally you want to shoot in the highest quality setting unless space is limited on your media.

This is the only way to shoot.

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One can never 'add' pixels back . . . but you can throw away the shots you do not like. If you have the room on your card, shoot in super fine. Card prices have come way down in the past few years and if you are tight for space, it would make a nice addition to your ability to take and 'keep' those good shots, IMO.

When I was traveling with my G2, I set different settings for the different modes so if I wanted a quick shot I knew I wasn't printing, I would switch it to Auto for example. However, when I knew there was a possibility of printing a shot, I went to full auto which was superfine and full resolution. While I know RAW does have advantages, I hate doing post processing so I am only shooting JPG. A larger file also allows you to crop things out as others said. So you can take candid shots a bit better at a higher resolution and full optical zoom. Just crop out all the extra junk you don't want and the shot becomes a little more zoomed in.

Thankls for the advice.

I found a great comparison for the RAW, Superfine and Fine modes on dpreview.com.

http://www.dpreview.co​m/reviews/canong6/page​12.asp

I always use superfine, i find the differences in quality between this and RAW are minimal and the benefits of the smaller file size out weigh the tiny quality increase from RAW.