File Names And Folders - Nikon D300 Complete Manual

• How many copies of each photo to print.
• Whether or not to print a thumbnail index of all the
images.
• Whether photos should be rotated.
• User information (name, address, etc.).
• Picture information (title, description, date, etc.).
A summary of the DPOF specification is available at:
http://panasonic.jp/dc/dpof_110/white_e.htm.
You select the pictures to print on your D300 by adding them
to a Print Set (see "Printing Your Images" on page <736>).
When you remove the CompactFlash card from your D300
that has a defined Print Set and insert it into a DPOF-capable
printer, such as the Epson Photo 875, the printer
automatically prints out all the photos you've selected.
PictBridge is related to DPOF. Think of DPOF as the print
data embedded in the image file and PictBridge as a
communications protocol to transmit files from camera to
printer. The D300 supports PictBridge, so you can connect a
printer directly to the D300 and print from the storage card in
the camera (see "PictBridge Printing" on page <741>).
If you're confused about why I just covered DPOF in the
Image Formats section of the eBook, remember that DPOF is
a set of standardized information that is stored with the image
files.

File Names and Folders

The D300 follows an industry standard practice for putting
images on CompactFlash storage (Design Rule for Camera File
Systems, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation DCF; the
1.0 standard is published at http://www.exif.org/dcf.PDF).
Unfortunately, the designers of this format didn't make it
particularly friendly. Moreover, many of the standards digital
cameras follow are interwoven. DCF is related to the EXIF
specification, for example.
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