Nikon COOLPIX 2500 quick start guide

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Parts of the

Ready the lens

Step

4

Step

6

Take a picture

DIGITAL CAMERA

You are just seven simple steps away from taking your first pictures!

Step

1

Shutter-release

button

Non-slip grip

Mode selector

Lens

Eyelet for
camera strap

Built-in Speedlight

Zoom buttons

Battery-chamber/
memory card slot cover

Lens housed in camera body Lens in shooting position

Do not use excessive force when adjusting the

!!

IMPORTANT!

angle of the lens. Care should be taken to avoid
catching fingers, hair, clothing, or other objects
between the lens section and the camera body.

Hold the camera with the monitor facing you.

a

Holding the lens section by the middle, rotate it until

b

the non-slip grip is visible.

Frame your picture in the monitor.

a

Use the button to zoom
out from your subject, the

button to zoom in.

Press the shutter-release button halfway and confirm focus in the monitor.

b

A green autofocus (AF) indicator (
monitor when the camera has focused. If the camera is unable to focus, the
indicator will turn red. If the flash-ready lamp under the monitor glows red,
the flash will fire to provide additional light when you take the picture.

Focus indicator

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Flash-ready lamp

) will be displayed at upper right in the

Unpack the camera

To set up your camera, you will need the items listed below. If any of the

a

items listed in this step are missing or damaged, contact your retailer or
Nikon representative.

COOLPIX 2500 Camera

strap

Important Information

To view pictures on a computer monitor, or to copy pictures to your com-

b

puter for storage, printing, or editing as described on the other side of this
guide, you will need the following items.

CompactFlash

memory card

MH-60 battery

charger and
power cable

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Quick Start Guide

EN-EL2 rechargeable

battery (with termi-

nal cover)

(this guide)

Cover latch

Multi selector

(quick review)

button

Monitor

Flash-ready lamp

Step

Insert the battery and memory card

Slide the mode selector to OFF.

a

Unlatch the battery-chamber/memory card slot

b

cover by sliding the latch toward the open posi­tion (

) until the red dot is visible.

3

Adjust the angle of the lens using the non-slip grip as shown.

c

Do not touch the lens or flash window with your fingers. Any finger-

!!

IMPORTANT!

Check the battery level

prints or dust on the lens may appear in pictures taken with the camera.
When cleaning the lens, use a soft, dry cloth as described in the Nikon
Guide to Digital Photography with the COOLPIX 2500.

Step

5

Press the shutter-release button the rest of the way down to take the pic-

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ture.

Your Nikon digital camera features a
two-stage shutter-release button. The
camera focuses when the shutter-re­lease button is pressed halfway. Press­ing the button all the way down re­leases the shutter to take a picture.

The monitor turns off automatically to save power when no operations
are performed. To turn the monitor on, press the shutter-release button

Note

halfway.

Step

Check the results

Press the (quick review) button once to view a small preview of the

a

picture you have just taken, twice to view the picture full screen.

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USB cable

Set the following items aside for later use.

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User`s Manual

Nikon Guide to Digital

Photography with the

COOLPIX 2500

Charge the battery

Connect the power cable to the MH-60 bat-

a

tery charger and plug the cable into an AC
wall outlet. The charge lamp will light.

Remove the terminal cover from the EN-EL2

b

rechargeable battery and insert the battery
into the MH-60. Charging will begin imme­diately. While the battery charges, the charge
lamp will blink.

Charging is complete when the lamp stops

c

blinking.

A battery with no charge remaining requires
about two hours to recharge completely.

Guarantee Nikon View 5

Nikon View 5 CD-ROM

Reference manual

CD-ROM

Step

Charge lamp

2

Open the battery-chamber/memory card slot cover as shown and insert the

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memory card and fully-charged EN-EL2 battery.

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Slide out

Raise cover

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2
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Slide battery in fully

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IMPORTANT!

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Do not use force when handling the battery-chamber/memory card slot cover.
Failure to observe this precaution could result in damage to the camera.

After confirming that the battery and memory card are fully inserted, close
and latch the cover. To latch the cover, slide the latch to the closed position

), covering the red dot.

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Orient “+” and
“–” contacts as
shown in label
on underside
of cover

Slide card in until seated in contacts
at rear of slot.
(Note: Insert card face down as shown
in illustration above. Trying to force
card in face up could cause damage.)

2
EL

­EN

Insert card as
shown in la­bel next to
card slot

Turn the camera on.

a

Check the battery level in the monitor.

b

No icon : Battery fully charged.

[

] : Low battery. Ready a fully-charged spare

battery.

[ WARNING ! ! BATTERY EXHAUSTED ] :

Battery is exhausted. Replace with a fully­charged spare battery.

The Multi Selector

In shooting mode, the multi selector controls:

Self-timer on/off

Press up to display self-timer

ONON

OFFOFF

Indicators on/off

Press to left to hide or
display indicators in
monitor.

menu, press up or down to high­light option. Press right to exit
menu.

Battery level indicator

Shooting mode selection

Press down to display
shooting-mode menu,
press up or down to
highlight option. Press
right to exit menu.

Press once

Use the multi selector to view other pictures.

Press twice

b

To return to shooting mode at any time, press the shut­ter-release button halfway.

Don’t forget to turn the camera off and rotate the lens to its original posi-

c

tion before putting the camera away.

Holding the Camera

Finger blocks
lens. Picture will
be obscured and
fingerprints
could be left on
lens.

Finger blocks
flash. Pictures
may be dark.

Hold the camera in both hands,
with the fingers of your left
hand placed on the top and
bottom of the camera body, out
of the way of the lens and flash.

Right

Wrong

Viewing Pictures on Your Computer Using Windows

OS: Pre-installed versions of Windows XP Home Edition/Professional, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows Millennium Edition (Me), Windows 98 Second Edition (SE) OS: Mac OS 9.0, Mac OS 9.1, Mac OS 9.2, Mac OS X (10.1.2 or later)

Viewing Pictures on Your Computer Using a Macintosh

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 on a computer:

• Nikon View 5:
Use this program to copy pictures from the camera or memory card to
your computer. Once transferred, you can view pictures at full size, print
them, and organize them into folders on your hard disk.

• FotoStation Easy:
The more adventurous can use this program for more comprehensive
sorting, filing, and image manipulation. FotoStation is only available to
users in Europe.

• Panorama Maker:
This program allows you to join several pictures to make a larger image.

• QuickTime:
Nikon View and FotoStation use this program to play back movies.

Depending on the version of Nikon View 5 installed, the installation pro­cess, dialogs and messages displayed may differ from those described here.

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 administrator” (Windows XP Home Edition/Professional)
or “Administrator” (Windows 2000 Professional).

Before Connecting the Camera

Before connecting your camera to a computer, make sure that Nikon
View 5 is installed.

Install Software

Turn the computer on and wait for the operating system to start up.

a

Insert the Nikon View 5 installer CD into a CD-ROM drive.

b

The dialog shown at right will be dis-

c

played. Select a language from the
pop-up menu and click Next.

The Install Center program will be launched automatically. Click Easy

d

Install to begin installation. Software installation includes Panorama
Maker, QuickTime 5.0.2, Nikon View 5, and FotoStation Easy (FotoStation
is only available to users in Europe).

Windows 98 Second Edition (SE)

If you are using Windows 98SE, be sure to install the Coolpix Camera
Driver.

Coolpix Camera Driver (Windows 98SE Only)
Click OK to begin installation of the Coolpix Camera Driver, and click
OK again once installation is complete.

Windows XP Update (Windows XP Only)

Depending on your operating environment and the version of Nikon
View 5 being installed, a Windows XP updater (setup wizard) may
start when you click Easy Install in Windows XP Home Edition or
Windows XP Professional. Follow the on-screen instructions until the
last dialog in the wizard is displayed, then continue with installation
of the next application. Do not restart your computer.

ArcSoft Panorama Maker 3.0

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Installation opens with a dialog ask­ing you to select the desired lan­guage. Select a language and click
OK. The dialog shown at right will
be displayed. Follow the on-screen
instructions to complete installation.

QuickTime 5.0.2

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Installation opens with the dialog shown
at right. The three fields “Registered
To ”, “Organization,” and “Registration
Number” should be left blank. Click
Next. Follow the on-screen instructions
to complete installation.

Nikon View 5

g

Installation of Nikon View 5 starts with
the license agreement. Be sure you
have read and understood the contents
of the license agreement before click­ing Yes to proceed to the next step.

The destination folder for Nikon View 5

h

will be displayed. Click Next.

Click Yes to create a new folder for

i

Nikon View 5.

Click Yes to create a shortcut to Nikon

j

View 5 on the desktop.

Click Finish to complete installation.

k

FotoStation Easy

l

Installation opens with a dialog asking
you to select the desired language. Se­lect a language and click OK. The dia­log shown at right will be displayed.
Follow the on-screen instructions to
continue installation. If a message is
displayed stating that a newer version
of QuickTime is already installed, click
OK.

Click Yes to restart the computer.

m

Once the computer has restarted, remove the Nikon View 5 installer

n

CD from the CD-ROM drive.
If the Welcome program starts up again after you have restarted the

computer, click Quit to exit the Welcome program and then remove
the CD from the CD-ROM drive.

Copy Pictures to Your Computer

Connect the camera to your computer as shown in the illustration be-

a

low, using the USB cable provided.
To prevent the camera from moving and disconnecting the cable, re-

turn the lens to its housing in the camera body and lay the camera flat
on a level surface with the monitor uppermost.

Turn the camera on (the monitor will be

b

blank). Nikon View 5 will automatically
detect the camera and display the Nikon
Transfer window. Click the (Trans­fer) button.

AutoPlay (Windows XP)

When you turn the camera on, a Remov­able Disk dialog will be displayed. Select

Copy pictures to a folder on my com­puter using Nikon View 5 and click OK

to start Nikon View 5. If you plan to al­ways mark images for transfer using the
camera
mend that you choose Always do the
selected action.

When all pictures have been copied, the Nikon View 5 Nikon Browser

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window will be displayed in the computer monitor.

By default, the folder “Imgnnnn” (where nnnn is a four-digit number
assigned automatically by Nikon View 5, starting from 0001) will be cre­ated in the directory My Pictures (My Documents) and the pictures will
be copied to this folder.

After confirming that transfer is complete, remove the camera from the

d

system as described below.

Windows XP Home Edition/Professional

Click the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon
( ) in the taskbar and select Safely re-
move USB Mass Storage Device from
the menu that appears.

Windows 2000 Professional

Click the “Unplug or Eject Hardware”
icon ( ) in the taskbar and select Stop
USB Mass Storage Device from the
menu that appears.

Windows Millennium Edition (Me)

Click the “Unplug or Eject Hardware” icon
( ) in the taskbar and select Stop USB

Disk from the menu that appears.

Windows 98 Second Edition (SE)

In My Computer, click with the right
mouse button on the removable disk cor­responding to the camera and select Eject
from the menu that appears.

Enjoying Pictures on Your Computer

Make prints on your per­sonal color printer.

( ) button, we recom-

Post pictures on your web site.

Make an on-line photo album

at http://www.nikonfotoshare.com/

European customers can share their pictures on­line in password-protected “photo albums.” Once
you have used the simple on-line tools to upload
your pictures, you can send invitations to selected
guests to view your album at their leisure. You can
even order prints on-line.

Select Copy pictures to

a folder on my com­puter using 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 on a computer:

• Nikon View 5:
Use this program to copy pictures from the camera or memory card to
your computer. Once transferred, you can view pictures at full size, print
them, and organize them into folders on your hard disk.

• FotoStation Easy:
The more adventurous can use this program for more comprehensive sort­ing, filing, and image manipulation. FotoStation is only available to users
in Europe.

• Panorama Maker:
This program allows you to join several pictures to make a larger image.

• QuickTime:
Nikon View and FotoStation use this program to play back movies.

Depending on the version of Nikon View 5 installed, the installation pro­cess, dialogs and messages displayed may differ from those described here.

Before Connecting the Camera

Before connecting your camera to a computer, make sure that Nikon
View 5 is installed.

Install Software

Turn the computer on and wait for the operating system to start up.

a

Insert the Nikon View 5 installer CD into a CD-ROM drive. The Nikon
View Welcome program will be launched automatically.

Mac OS X (10.1.2 or later)

Nikon View 5 will not start automatically. Double-click the Nikon View 5
CD-ROM icon on the desktop, then double-click the Welcome icon.

The dialog shown at right will be dis-

b

played. Select a language from the
pop-up menu and click Next.

The Install Center program will be

c

launched automatically. Click Install
to begin installation of all the software
checked in the software tab. By de­fault, the installation includes Pan­orama Maker, QuickTime 5.0.2, Nikon
View 5, and FotoStation Easy
(FotoStation is only available to users
in

Europe

stalled under Mac OS X.

Panorama Maker

d

The dialog shown at right will be dis­played. Follow the on-screen instruc­tions to complete installation.

Mac OS X (10.1.2 or later)

If you are using Mac OS X, the Authenticate dia­log will be displayed before the Nikon View 5
installer. Enter your administrator name and
password, and then click OK.

Nikon View 5

e

The license agreement shown at right
will be displayed. Be sure you have read
and understood the agreement before
clicking Accept. The ReadMe file will
then be displayed. Take a few mo­ments to read this file which may con­tain important information that could
not be included in the manual.

Click Install to proceed with instal-

f

lation.

Click Quit to complete installation of

g

Nikon View 5.

). QuickTime 5.0.2 is not in-

FotoStation Easy

h

The dialog shown at right will be dis­played. Follow the on-screen instruc­tions to complete installation.

QuickTime 5.0.2

i

Installation of QuickTime 5.0.2 opens
with the dialog shown at right
(QuickTime 5.0.2 is not installed un­der Mac OS X). The three fields “Reg­istered To”, “Organization,” and “Reg-
istration Number” should be left blank.
Click Continue. Follow the on-screen
instructions to complete installation.

One of the two dialogs shown right

j

will be displayed. Click Restart to
restart your computer.

Once the computer has restarted, remove the Nikon View 5 installer

k

CD from the CD-ROM drive.
If the Welcome program starts up again after you have restarted the

computer, click Quit to exit the Welcome program and then remove
the CD from the CD-ROM drive.

Copy Pictures to Your Computer

Mac OS X (10.1.2 or later)

Before turning the camera on, se­lect Applications from the Go
menu and double-click the Image
Capture icon. The dialog shown
at right will be displayed. Select
None from the Hot plug action menu and close the Image Capture
dialog. If you install Apple iPhoto software after you install Nikon
View 5, please repeat this step to prevent both iPhoto and Nikon
View 5 from starting when you connect your camera.

Connect the camera to your computer as shown in the illustration

a

below, using the USB cable provided.
To prevent the camera from moving and disconnecting the cable, re-

turn the lens to its housing in the camera body and lay the camera flat
on a level surface with the monitor uppermost.

Turn the camera on (the monitor will

b

be blank). Nikon View 5 will automati­cally detect the camera and display the
Nikon Transfer window. Click the
(Transfer) button.

Nikon Browser window

Nikon Transfer window

When all pictures have been copied, they will be displayed in the

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Nikon View 5 Nikon Browser window.

By default, pictures will be copied to the folder “Imgnnnn” in the
Documents folder (Mac OS 9) or Pictures folder (Mac OS X), where
nnnn is a four-digit number assigned automatically by Nikon View 5.

After confirming that transfer is com-

d

pete, be sure to drag the untitled (in
Mac OS X, “NO_NAME”) disk corre­sponding to the camera into the Trash
before turning the camera off and dis­connecting the USB cable.

Mac OS 9 Mac OS X

Select None

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