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Part I: Fast Track to Super Snaps
This setup can create a scenario
where you wind up with multiple
images that have the same file-
name — not on the current
memory card, but when you
download images to your com-
puter. So set the option to On.
(Refer to Figure 1-22 .) Note that
when you get to picture number
9999, file numbering is still reset
to 0001, however. The camera
automatically creates a new
folder to hold your next 9,999
images.
As for the Reset option, it
enables you to assign the first
file number (which ends in
0001) to the next picture you shoot. Then the camera behaves as if you
selected the On setting.
Should you be a really, really prolific shooter and snap enough pictures
to reach image 9999 in folder 999, the camera will refuse to take another
photo until you choose that Reset option and either format the memory
card or insert a brand-new one.
✓
Slot Empty Release Lock: This feature determines whether the camera
lets you take a picture when no memory card is installed. If you select
Enable Release, you can take a temporary picture, which appears in the
monitor with the word Demo but isn't recorded anywhere. The feature is
provided mainly for use in camera stores, enabling salespeople to dem-
onstrate the camera without having to keep a memory card installed. I
can think of no good reason why anyone else would change the setting
from the default, Release Locked.
✓
Print Date: Using this option, you can imprint on the photo the shooting
date, the date and time, or the number of days between the day you took
the picture and another date that you specify. This feature doesn ' t work
if you set the Image Quality option to NEF (Raw) or NEF (Raw) + JPEG or
use the Easy Panorama Effects feature. See Chapter 2 for details about the
Image Quality setting; see Chapter 3 for help using Easy Panorama mode.
The default setting, Off, is the way to go; you don't need to permanently
mar your photos to find out when you took them. Every picture file
includes a hidden vat of text data, or metadata, that records the shooting
date and time as well as all the camera settings you used. You can view
this data during playback and, after downloading, in the free software
provided with your camera as well as in many photo programs.
Figure 1-22 :
Danger, Will Robinson! Change
the File Number Sequence option to On to
avoid winding up with multiple pictures that
have the same filename.
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