Nikon Coolpix 4300 Quick Start Manual

Nikon Coolpix 4300 Quick Start Manual

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  • Page 1: Quick Start Guide

    Take Pictures/Transfer Pictures to Your Computer Quick Start Guide...
  • Page 2 Let’s Use COOLPIX 4300 Contents Shoot Take Pictures P.15 Transfer Pictures P.16 P.39 to Your Computer Installing Review P.18 P.29 Software For Windows P.22 For Macintosh P.26 Transfer Connecting to P.30 P.39 a Computer...
  • Page 3 Take Pictures with the COOLPIX 4300 Please take the time to read this Quick Start Guide and discover how to take and view pictures with your COOLPIX4300. P.13 Review your pictures Prepare the camera Unpack the camera P.10 P.12 Take pictures See the “Nikon Guide to...
  • Page 4: Unpack The Camera

    USB Interface Cable Lens Cap with cord CD-ROMs included with the product vary with country or region of purchase. Note: An exhausted battery can be fully recharged in approximately Nikon View 5 Nikon View 5 2 hours. CD-ROM Reference Manual CD-ROM...
  • Page 5: Prepare The Camera

    Prepare the camera Attach the camera strap. Open the memory card-slot cover. Camera OFF. Insert the memory card into the slot and close the cover. Open the battery cover. Pressing the battery-chamber cover latch ⁄, slide the battery-chamber cover out ¤ Direction of Important: Memory cards and flip it open ‹.
  • Page 6: Take Pictures

    Take pictures Check the battery level and the number of exposure remaining in the monitor. The steps below explain how to take pictures using the monitor in a (auto) mode, where most of the settings are controlled by the camera. •...
  • Page 7: Review Your Pictures

    Halfway press to focus. Press the QUICK p button. Check the status of the autofocus (green) and flash-ready (red) lamps next to the viewfinder. 2002.09.15 2002.09.15 2002.09.15 100 100NI NIKON 100NIKON 15:50 15:50 15:50 000 0001. JPG 0001.JPG 2272 2272...
  • Page 8: Scene Modes

    SCENE mode menu. Select desired mode by pressing the multi selector. Night Portrait Landscape Fireworks Show Copy Night Portrait Party/Indoor Close Up Back Light See page 34-38 on the Nikon Guide to Digital Photography for details on each mode. Landscape Beach/ Snow...
  • Page 9: Installing Software

    Step 2 Before you begin: installing Nikon View 5 So that you can enjoy your Nikon digital camera to the full, Nikon offers the following software to help you sort, manipulate, print, and share your pictures Step 3 Install Nikon View 5 on a computer: •...
  • Page 10 Double-click the installer icon. The installer start-up screen will be displayed; follow the on-screen The first step to installing Nikon View 5 is to read the instructions to complete installation. instructions. These are included on the reference CD provided with your camera.
  • Page 11: Windows Users

    COOLPIX4300 requires the version of Nikon View 5 provided with the camera. If you have a version of Nikon View that was included with another Nikon digital camera, you will need to upgrade to the version provided with the COOLPIX4300.
  • Page 12: For Windows

    Install Nikon View 5 To Users of Windows XP Home Edition/Professional and Windows 2000 Professional When installing, uninstalling or using Nikon View 5, log on as the Computer • Windows XP Update (Windows XP Only) administrator (Windows XP Home Edition/Professional) or Administrator Depending on the computer's operating environment, the PTP driver (Windows 2000 Professional).
  • Page 13 If the Welcome program starts up again after you have restarted the computer, click Quit to exit the Welcome program then remove the CD from the CD-ROM drive. Create a shortcut to Nikon View 5 on the desktop. Now you are done with the installation of the Click Yes Nikon View 5.
  • Page 14: For Macintosh

    Step 3 Install Nikon View 5 Turn the computer on and insert the Nikon View 5 installer CD into a CD-ROM drive. Mac OS X (10.1.2 or later) The Nikon View Welcome program will be launched If you are using Mac OS X, the automatically.
  • Page 15 Follow the on-screen instructions to desktop (Mac OS 9). Mac OS 9 Mac OS X complete installation. Click Quit to complete installation of Nikon View 5. One of the two dialogs shown right will be displayed. Click Restart to restart your computer.
  • Page 16 Windows 98 Second Edition (SE) * Pictures cannot be transferred using camera TRANSFER button in Mac OS X Turn the computer on. 10.1.2. Use Nikon View 5 button to transfer pictures. To select PTP: Connect the camera to your computer as shown in the Set the mode dial of the camera to “SETUP”, turn the camera on and...
  • Page 17 Step 2 Copy Pictures to Your Computer Turn the camera on. • The lens will extend and the camera monitor will be blank. • Nikon View 5 will automatically detect the camera and display the Nikon Transfer window. Windows Macintosh...
  • Page 18 IMAGE TO TRANSFER COMPLETED TO TRANSFER COMPUTER images from the Image transfer rule menu in Nikon Transfer window Mac OS X Pictures can not be transferred using the camera TRANSFER button in Mac OS X 10.1.2. Use the button in Nikon Transfer window.
  • Page 19 Documents folder or My Pictures folder, where nnnn is a four-digit number Documents folder (Mac OS 9) or Pictures folder (Mac OS X), where nnnn is (starting from 0001) assigned automatically be Nikon View 5. a four-digit number (starting from 0001) assigned automatically by Nikon View 5. Congratulations!
  • Page 20: System Requirements

    Hard-disk space 25 MB required for installation, with additional free disk space of disconnecting the cable. 10 MB plus double the capacity of the camera memory card available on system disk when Nikon View 5 is running. Windows XP Home Edition/Professional Click the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon...
  • Page 21 No reproduction in any form of this manual, in whole or in part (except for brief quotation in critical articles or reviews), may be made without written authorisation from NIKON CORPORATION. NIKON CORPORATION FUJI BLDG., 2-3, MARUNOUCHI 3-CHOME, CHIYODA-KU, TOKYO 100-8331, JAPAN...

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