Nikon D300 User Manual page 468

USB (D300 only)
(User's Manual – D300 page 319)
Nikon provides D300 users with two separate
namely MTP/PTP
selections:
▪ Mass Storage –
(MSC), which makes your D300 act like a portable hard
drive when attached to your computer with a USB cable.
It will show up as a drive letter in your computer's hard
drive browser (Windows Explorer, etc.).
Figure 5-21. D300 (only) camera menus for USB
protocols
▪ MTP/PTP –
custom extensions to Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP), so
they are included together.
transferring pictures from digital cameras.
created mainly for transferring music and video files.
MTP/PTP
and Mass Storage. Let's examine the two
The first protocol is
Media Transfer Protocol
is the default setting.
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USB
Mass Storage
(MTP) is a set of
PTP was designed for
protocols,
MTP was