Nikon COOLPIX 880 user Manual

This Menu Guide provides an overview of the camera’s menus. Keep it in a convenient place for quick reference while using your camera. Page numbers shown refer to the Guide to Digital Photography.

Scene page 1

In SCENE mode, you select the scene from a menu of creative shooting situations, and the camera automatically adjusts settings to produce the best possible results.

Portrait Party/Indoor Night Portrait Beach/Snow Landscape Sunset

OFF

SCENE 1

SELECT SET

Portrait

Use to obtain portrait photographs in which the main subject stands out clearly and background details are softened, lending the composition a sense of depth.

Party/Indoor

Use at parties and other indoor events for atmospheric photographs that include details of the background behind the subject.

Night Portrait

Use for photographs that provide a natural balance between the main subject and the background when taking portraits against a backdrop of nighttime scenery.

Beach/Snow

Use for photographs that vividly capture the brightness of such subjects as snowfields, beaches, or sunlit oceans and lakes.

Landscape

Use for vivid landscape photographs that enhance outlines, colors, and contrast in subjects such as skyscapes and forests.

Sunset

Use for photographs that capture the beautiful reds in sunsets or sunrises exactly as you see them.

Scene

Scene page 2

SCENE 2

Night Landscape Fireworks Show Close Up Copy Back Light

SELECT SET

OFF

Night Landscape

Use for photographs that employ slow shutter speeds to produce stunning night landscapes.

Fireworks Show

Use when photographing firework displays. The camera responds more rapidly to the shutter-release button, ensuring that you won’t miss the chance to take the perfect shot.

Close Up

Use to capture vivid colors in close-up shots of flowers, insects, and other small objects that catch your eye.

Copy

Use to obtain clear pictures of text or drawings on a white board, business card, or printed matter.

Back Light

Use when light is coming from behind your subject, throwing their features into shadow, or when your subject is in the shade but the background is brightly lit. The flash will fire automatically to illuminate (“fill in”) shadows.

Scene

P•A•M page 1

hite

set

Incandescent Fluorescent

loudy

The P, A, and M modes give the user control over a variety of camera settings. The following menus are displayed in P, A, and M modes.

A A

SHOOTING MENU1

SELECT SET

PAGE2

WHITE BALANCE

Auto

hite

Fine

Incandescent

Fluorescent C

loudy

peedlight

OFF

METERING

Matrix Spot Center-Weighted

Spot AF Area

A A

OFF

CONTINUOUS

Ultra HS

A A

OFF

BEST SHOT SELECTOR

Off On

A A

OFF

Bal Preset

SELECT SET

–1

FL1 FL2 FL3

The white-balance option allows the camera to adjust colors according to lighting so that colors that appear white to the human eye also appear white when viewed in the final photograph.

The “metering method” is the method your camera uses to measure light when determining exposure. The METERING menu offers a choice of four metering methods.

Using the CONTINUOUS menu, you can set the camera to take photographs one at a time, shoot multiple photographs in sequence, or even record short movies.

“Best-shot selection” (BSS) compensates for camera movement. It is most effective in situations in which inadvertent camera movement may affect the outcome of the photograph.

White Balance

Metering

Continuous

Best Shot

Selector

LENS

Slide Copy Adptr

SELECT SET

OFF

IMAGE ADJUSTMENT

SELECT SET

OFF

IMAGE SHARPENING

Auto

High Normal Low Off

SELECT SET

OFF

P•A•M page 2

IMAGE SIZE & QUALITY

Image Quality Image Size

Using the LENS sub-menu, you can select combinations of settings suited to the lens converters which can be attached to the COOLPIX 880.

The IMAGE ADJUSTMENT sub-menu gives you control over the brightness and contrast compensation performed by the camera, as well as providing the option to produce monochrome images.

The IMAGE SHARPENING sub-menu gives you control over the amount of sharpening performed by the camera.

SHOOTING MENU2

QUAL.

OFF

SELECT SET

HI FINE NORMAL BASIC

FULL XGA VGA

Image size and image quality (level of compression) can be adjusted depending on how you will use the image.

Lens

106

Adjustment

Image

Sharpening

Image

Size & Quality

Image

137

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