Reading Photographs From Memory Cards - Nikon COOLPIX995 User Manual

Nikon COOLPIX995 Digital Camera
With Macintosh OS 8.6 or OS 9 , the "untitled" volume corresponding to the camera is automatically displayed on the desktop.
Note that users of Mac OS 8.6 will need to upgrade to version 1.3.5 of the Apple Computer USB driver. Nikon View 4.0 will by
default automatically start as soon as the camera is connected.
DCF
The COOLPIX995 confirms to the Design rule for Camera File system (DCF) format. The DCF is a widely adopted image
format standard enabling the shared use of image data from different digital camera manufacturers.

Reading photographs from memory cards

There are a number of different types of memory card in use with digital cameras. The COOLPIX uses the small CF
(CompactFlash ™ ) format memory cards which are about the size of a book of matches, and accepts Type II CF cards, which
are slightly thicker, as well as Type I CF cards. Current laptop computers are generally equipped with PC card slots which are
electrically the same as CF, but are about the size of a credit card. A simple, optional inexpensive adapter (EC-AD1) is
available from Nikon, and this takes a Type I CF card and allows it to fit into a PC card slot. If you are using Type II CF cards,
make sure that your adapter is compatible. Alternatively a CF card reader may be used. There are CF card readers for both
Type I and Type II formats, and for a variety of connections to the computer, including Parallel, USB and SCSI.
1. Insert the CF memory card into the EC-AD1 PC-card adapter, CF card reader etc. of your computer.
For details on insertion, read the instruction manuals provided with the computer or card reader.
The steps involved in connecting a card drive and inserting CF memory cards are covered in the instruction
manual for the computer or operating system.
2. Nikon View 4 will by default automatically begin and allow image files on the CF memory card to be checked
and copied to your computer.
The CF memory card will now function as an additional drive of the computer.
In standard situations where setting (creating a new folder, changing name) is not selected at Folders in the
Shooting menu , the following folders and image files are stored in the memory card.
Image files may be found in the 100NIKON folder which is in folder (directory) DCIM in the root directory. The
image files are named DSCN0001.gif, DSCN0002.gif, DSCN0003.gif, etc.
Image files and folders - naming
Image file names created by the camera are named DSCN0001.gif to DSCN9999.gif within a given folder. If and when
the image file number in the 100NIKON folder reaches 9999, the COOLPIX995 automatically creates a new folder
called 101NIKON, and in that folder, new image files starting from DSCN0001.gif are stored.
Images are stored in RGB TIFF (Red, Green and Blue Tagged Image File Format) format when the image is taken in
HI (no compression) mode. TIFF files are not compressed and represent the highest possible Image quality.
Images are stored in MOV (QuickTime Movie) format when the images are taken in
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Movie mode.
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