Nikon COOLPIX 4300 quick start guide

Take Pictures/Transfer Pictures to Your Computer

Quick Start Guide

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Let’s Use COOLPIX 4300

	Contents
Shoot	Take Pictures	P.4	P.15
	Transfer Pictures	P.16	P.39
	to Your Computer
Review	Installing	P.18	P.29
	Software
	For Windows	P.22
	For Macintosh	P.26
Transfer			P.39
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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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Prepare the camera

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Unpack the camera

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Charge the battery

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your pictures

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Take pictures

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

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1 Unpack the camera

Check that you have all the items listed below.

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COOLPIX4300	Quick Start Guide	Guide to Digital
	(This Guide)	Photography with
		the COOLPIX4300
Warranty
4	5	6
Warranty	“Important	Camera Strap
	Information”
	Envelope
		MH 53
CF CARD
7	8	9
CompactFlash™	Rechargeable	Battery Charger
Memory Card	EN-EL1 battery	with power cable
	with terminal cover	(Shape of cable depends
		on country or region of
		purchase)
10	11	12
Video Cable	USB Interface Cable	Lens Cap with cord

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

13	14
Nikon View 5	Nikon View 5
CD-ROM	Reference Manual
6	CD-ROM

2 Charge the battery

1 Connect to AC power.

MH 53

LITHIUM I N BATTERY CHARGER

2	Insert battery.
	Insert
	direction of
	arrow
		Terminals
	MH 53	EN-EL1

3	The CHARGE
	charger will blink

battery charges.

4	Charging is complete when
	the CHARGE lamp remains lit.

Note: An exhausted battery can be fully recharged in approximately 2 hours.

CHARGE lamp

CHARGE

CHARGE

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3 Prepare the camera

1 Attach the camera strap.

2 Camera OFF.

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

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5 Close the cover.

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

6 Open

cover.

7	Insert the memory card into
	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

Direction of insertion

Front of card

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4 Take pictures

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.

1	Remove the
	Mode dial

Camera on.

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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2	Check the battery level and the number of exposure
	remaining in the monitor.

			2272	• No icon: Battery fully charged.
				• M: Recharge soon.
	1/250	F2.8	10

• WARNING!! BATTERY EXHAUSTED: Recharge now!

Number of exposures

remaining 10

4 Frame your subject.

Press W on zoom button to zoom out,

T to zoom in.

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4 Take pictures (continued)

5	Halfway press to
	Check the status of

(green) and flash-ready next to the viewfinder.

		Meaning
		will fire when picture is taken.
	Flash-	charging. Remove finger briefly from
	lamp	release button, then try again.
		not required or flash set to “off”.
		in focus.
	Autofocus	unable to focus on subject. Use focus
	lamp
		to focus on another subject at the same
	(green)
		then recompose your picture.

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5	Review your pictures
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			2272	2272
					11// 11
	1/250	F2.8	9
			Press		Press
			once		twice

focus the camera for your next shot, press the halfway.

Congratulations on your first pictures!

See the next page for the Scene mode and page 16 for installing software.

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