Take Pictures/Transfer Pictures to Your Computer
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
Take Pictures/Transfer Pictures to Your Computer
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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