Nikon COOLPIX 4300 quick start guide

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Quick Start Guide

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Let’s Use COOLPIX 4300

Contents

Review

Shoot

Transfer

Take Pictures

Transfer Pictures
to Your Computer

Installing
Software

For Windows

For Macintosh

Connecting to
a Computer

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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.

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Unpack the camera

Prepare the

camera

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Charge the battery

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Review your pictures

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Take pictures

See the “Nikon Guide to
DIgital Photography” for
details on each operation.

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Unpack the camera

CF CARD

CHARGE

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LITHIUM ION BATTERY CHARGER

CHARGE

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LITHIUM ION BATTERY CHARGER

CHARGE

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LITHIUM ION BATTERY CHARGER

CHARGE

CHARGE

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Check that you have all the items listed below.

Charge the battery

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COOLPIX4300

Warranty

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Warranty

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CompactFlash™

Memory Card

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Video Cable

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Quick Start Guide

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Quick Start Guide

(This Guide)

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“Important

Information”

Envelope

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Rechargeable

EN-EL1 battery

with terminal cover

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USB Interface Cable12Lens Cap with cord

CD-ROMs included with the
product vary with country or
region of purchase.

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Connect to AC power.

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Guide to Digital

Photography with

the COOLPIX4300

Insert battery.

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Camera Strap

Insert in
direction of
arrow

Terminals

EN-EL1

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Battery Charger

The CHARGE lamp on the

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charger will blink while the
battery charges.

CHARGE lamp

with power cable

(Shape of cable depends

on country or region of

purchase)

Charging is complete when

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the CHARGE lamp remains lit.

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Nikon View 5

CD-ROM

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Nikon View 5

Reference Manual

CD-ROM

Note: An exhausted battery can be

fully recharged in approximately
2 hours.

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Prepare the camera

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Attach the camera strap.

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Camera OFF.

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Open the battery cover.

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Pressing the battery-chamber
cover latch ⁄, slide the
battery-chamber cover out ¤
and flip it open ‹.

Insert the battery.

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Open the memory card-slot

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cover.

Insert the memory card into

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the slot and close the cover.

Important: Memory cards
are labeled with an
arrow(s) showing the
direction of insertion. With
this label facing the back
of the camera (the side
with the monitor), insert
the card in the direction of
the arrow, sliding it in until
it is firmly in place.

Direction of
insertion

Terminals

Front of
card

Close the cover.

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Hold the cover shut, and slide
it to the closed position.

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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.

Remove the lens cap.

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Mode dial to a.

Camera on.

Check the battery level and the number of exposure

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remaining in the monitor.

Number of exposures

remaining

Hold the camera steady.

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• No icon: Battery fully charged.

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MM: Recharge soon.

• WARNING!! BATTERY

EXHAUSTED: Recharge now!

Frame your subject.

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Note: The first time you use the camera, the date
and time will not be set, and a flashing clock icon
( ) will appear in the monitor. For more information,
see the Guide to Digital Photography, page 21.

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Press W on zoom button to zoom out,
T to zoom in.

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Review your pictures

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Flash-ready Blinks

lamp (red) rapidly

Autofocus

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Halfway press to focus.

Check the status of the autofocus
(green) and flash-ready (red) lamps
next to the viewfinder.

Lamp

On

Flash will fire when picture is taken.

Flash charging. Remove finger briefly from
shutter release button, then try again.

Off

Flash not required or flash set to “off”.

On

Subject in focus.

lamp

(green)

Flickers

Press the shutter release
button all the way to shoot.

Camera unable to focus on subject. Use focus
lock to focus on another subject at the same
distance, then recompose your picture.

Meaning

Press the QUICK p button.

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Press
once

Check all pictures:

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> previous
< next

To end review and focus the camera for your next shot, press the
shutter release button halfway.

When you have finished taking
pictures, turn the camera off.

Press
twice

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Focus and exposure are locked when the shutter
release button is pressed halfway down. They
remain locked as long as the button is pressed.
Press the shutter release button all the way down
to take your picture.

Congratulations on your first pictures!
See the next page for the Scene mode and page 16
for installing software.

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