Nikon D70S Quick Start Guide

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Quick Start Guide

Read this guide for a basic introduction to taking photographs with your D70S at default, “point-and-shoot” settings.

The reverse side provides instructions for installing PictureProject and transferring photographs to your computer.

Complete information on using your Nikon digital camera can be found in the Nikon Guide to Digital Photography with the D70S or the PictureProject reference manual (on CD).

Unpacking the Camera

Be sure all items listed here were included with your camera.

NOTE: Memory cards are sold separately.

D70S camera ..............................................

Body cap(attached to camera) ................

DK-20 Viewﬁ nder eyepiece cup (attached

to camera) .................................................

BM-5 LCD monitor cover (attached to

camera) ......................................................

Quick Start Guide (this guide) .................

Nikon Guide to Digital Photography.......

Warranty....................................................

DK-5 eyepiece cap.....................................

햲

Rechargeable EN- EL3a Li- ion Battery

햳

with terminal cover (instruction manual

included)....................................................

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MH-18a quick charger with power cable

(instruction manual included) .................

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AN-DC1 camera strap ...............................

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EG-D100 video cable.................................

UC-E4 USB cable........................................

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PictureProject CD-ROM (gray).................

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PictureProject Reference Manual CD - ROM

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Take a Photograph

A. Charge the battery

Charge the EN-EL3a battery using the

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AC adapter plug

CHARG E lamp

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Attaching the Camera Strap

Attach the camera strap securely to the two eyelets on the camera body as shown below.

MH-18a quick charger provided with your camera.

1 Connect the AC adapter plug to

the battery charger (햲).

2 Plug the wall plug into a power

outlet.

3 With the arrow on top of the

battery toward the CHARGE lamp, place the EN- EL3a in the battery bay, matching the battery indentations with the charger projections, and slide it towards the CHARGE lamp (햳).

4 Slide the EN- EL3a toward the

CHARGE lamp until you hear it click into place (햴). The lamp will start to blink orange, indicating that charging has begun. Charging is complete when the lamp glows steadily.

An exhausted battery will take approximately two hours to recharge.

For details, see the documentation provided with your battery and charger.

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D. Attach a lens

Mounting marks

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E. Insert a memory card

Eject but ton

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Memory card slot cover latch

Direction of insertion

Rear label

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Top view

F. Format the memory card

1 Turn t he camera off. 2 Keeping the mounting marks aligned

as shown left, position the lens in the camera’s bayonet mount. Being careful not to press the lens-release button, rotate the lens counterclockwise until it clicks into place.

Lock aperture at the minimum setting (highest f/-number). This step is not necessary for type G lenses.

To t ake full advantage of the features offered by the D70S, use a type G or D CPU Nikkor lens.

1 Turn t he camera off. 2 Press the card-slot cover latch (햲) and

open the cover (햳).

3 Insert the memory card (available

separately) with the rear label toward the monitor. When the memory card

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is fully inserted (햴), the access lamp (green) will light brieﬂ y and the eject button will pop up (햵).

4 Close the card slot cover.

The memory card slot slopes slightly toward the monitor. Match the angle of the memory card slot when inserting memory cards.

Adjusting Viewﬁ nder Focus

To adjust view ﬁ nder focus, slide the diopter adjustment control up and down until the focus area in the viewﬁ nder are in sharp focus.

When operating the diopter adjustment control with your eye to the viewﬁ nder, be careful not to put your ﬁ ngers or ﬁ ngernails in your eye.

Optional corrective lenses are available to accomodate individual differences in vision. See page 190 of the Guide to Digital Photography.

If necessary, the rubber eyepiece cup can be removed; when the cup is replaced, the lettered face should be down.

I. Frame a photograph and shoot

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Memory card

access lamp

Compose your photograph with your subject in one of the focus areas and press the shutter-release button halfway to focus

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appears in the viewﬁ nder 햳.

Press the shutter-release button the rest of the way down 햴 to take the photograph. While the photograph is being recorded to the memory card, the card access lamp next to the memory card slot will light 햵.

. Conﬁ rm that the in-focus indicator (

Do not turn the camera off or remove the memory card while the access lamp is lit. Failure to obser ve this precaution could result in lost photographs or in damage to the camera or card.

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Parts of the Camera

Shutter-release button

Eyelet for camera strap

Power switch

Viewﬁ nder

eyepiece

Battery-chamber cover latch

Battery-chamber cover

Mode dial

Control panel

Shooting mode ( Format ( ) button

Playback ( ) button

Menu ( Sensitivity (ISO) button

( )

) button

LCD illuminator ( ) button Format ( ) button

) button

Enter ( ) button

Viewﬁ nder

eyepiece cup

Delete (

To U sers of Digital Cameras with Interchangeable Lenses: Foreign Matter on the Low-Pass Filter

Nikon takes every possible precaution to prevent foreign matter from coming into contact with the low-pass ﬁ lter during production and shipping. The D70S, however, is des igne d to be us ed wi th in ter cha ngea ble l enses , and foreign matter may enter the camera when lenses are removed or exchanged. Once inside the camera, this foreign matter may adhere to the low-pass ﬁ lter, where it may appear in photographs taken under certain conditions. To prevent foreign matter from entering the camera, do not exchange lenses in dusty environments. To protect the camera when no lens is in place, be sure to replace the body cap provided with the camera, being careful to ﬁ rst remove all dust and other foreign matter that may be adhering to the body cap.

Should foreign matter ﬁ nd its way onto the low -pass ﬁ lter, clean the low- pass ﬁ lter as instructed on pages 194–195 of the Guide to Digital Photography, or have the low- pass ﬁ lter cleaned by authorized Nikon service personnel. Photographs affected by the presence of foreign matter on the low-pass ﬁ lter can be retouched using Nikon Capture 4 (available separately) or the clean image options available in some third- party imaging software.

Diopter adjustment control

Multi selector

Memory card slot cover

Memory card slot cover latch

Memory card access lampMonitor

) button

B. Insert the battery

1 Turn the camera off. 2 Slide the battery-chamber cover latch to the

position and open the battery-chamber

cover (햲). Slide the EN-EL3a battery into the battery chamber as shown (햳).

3 Close the battery-chamber cover (햴).

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Battery-chamber cover latch

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Insert the battery fully and close the battery-chamber cover

C. Choose a language and set the clock

The ﬁ rst time the camera is turned on, a language-selection dialog will be displayed. Choose a language and set the date and time. For details, see the Guide to Digital Photography, page 16.

Language selection dialog displayed.

Display DATE menu.

Exit DATE menu. Monitor turns off.

Select language.

Edit Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute, and Second. Press multi selector left or right to

select item, up or down to change. Press the

button when setup is complete.

No operations can be performed until a language has been selected and the clock has been set. If you exit the menus without pressing the button, the languageselection dialog will be displayed the next time the camera is turned on.

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Note that formatting memory cards permanently deletes any photographs they may contain.

1 Turn the camera on. 2 Hold the

( and ) buttons down simultaneously for approximately two seconds. A

blinking will appear in the shutter-speed display and the number of exposures remaining will blink.

Control panel

Number of exposures remaining

3 Push the

again to format the card. During formatting, the letters appear in the frame-count display. When formatting is complete, the

( and ) buttons

frame- count display will show the number of exposures remaining.

Viewﬁ nder

G. Rotate the mode dial to

Rotate the mode dial to . In this automatic, “point-and-shoot” mode, the majority of settings are controlled automatically by the camera, making it ideal for ﬁ rst-time users of digital SLR cameras.

H. Adjust camera settings

When you turn the camera on for the ﬁ rst time, image quality and size, sensitivity and Shooting mode are set as shown in the table below. Refer to the Guide to Digital Photography for more information on camera settings.

Shooting mode

Image quality

Image size

Option Default Description

Image quality

Image size

Sensitivity

Shooting mode

NORM

(JPEG Normal)

(Large)

200

(Single frame)

Sensitivity is displayed only when the ISO button is pressed.

Top con trol panel

Photographs are compressed for balance between image quality and ﬁ le size that is ideal for snapshots.

Images are 3,008 × 2,000 pixels in size.

Sensitivity (digital equivalent of ﬁ lm speed) set to value roughly equivalent to ISO 200.

One photograph is taken each time shutter-releasebutton is pressed.

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Playing Photographs Back

Photographs can be played back in the monitor any time after shooting, allowing you to check the results of earlier photographs and choose a better angle or adjust lighting for your next shot. Unwanted photographs can be deleted instantly to make room for more photographs on the memory card.

Viewing Photographs

Photographs are displayed in the monitor during recording and when the button is pressed.

• Photographs are automatically displayed while being recorded to memory card.

Deleting Photographs

To delete a photograph displayed in single-image playback, or the photograph highlighted in thumbnail playback, press the

button. Once deleted, photographs can not be recovered.

• Press button at any time to display most recent photograph.

To view ad ditional photographs, press the multi selector up or down. Press the multi selector down to view photographs in the order recorded, up to view photographs in reverse order. Pressing the multi selector down when the last photograph on the memory card is displayed returns you to the ﬁ rst photograph. When the ﬁ rst photograph in memory is displayed, the last photograph can be viewed by pressing the multi selector up. Keep the multi selector pressed to scroll rapidly through the photographs.

To tur n the monitor off and return to shooting mode, press the

button or press the shutterrelease button halfway. The monitor will turn off automatically if no operations are performed for 20 s ( default setting).

Photographs taken in “tall” (portrait) orientation will be displayed in portrait orientation in the monitor.

1 Press the multi selector up or down to display

the photo you want to delete.

2 Press the

button.

3 A conﬁ rmation dialog will be displ aye d. P ress

the

button again to delete the image and return to playback. Press any other button to exit without deleting the photograph.

Viewing Pictures on a Computer

PictureProject

Viewing Pictures on a Computer

Supported Operating Systems

Windows (pre-installed versions only) •Windows XP Home Edition/Windows XP Professional

•Windows Millennium Edition (Me)

Macintosh •Mac OS X (10.1.5 or later)

•Windows 2000 Professional

•Windows 98 Second Edition (SE)

Pictures taken with your D70S can be transferred to a computer, where they can be viewed and organized. To transfer your pictures, you will need to install PictureProject as described below. For complete instructions on using PictureProject, see the PictureProject Reference Manual (on CD).

Step 1—Install PictureProject

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

Before installing PictureProject, exit all other applications, including virus-checking software.

Before Connecting the Camera

Take at least one picture and install PictureProject before connecting the camera to a computer.

Nikon View

Before installing PictureProject, uninstall Nikon View.

Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Professional, Mac OS X

When installing or uninstalling PictureProject under the above operating systems, log on to an account with administrator privileges.

Windows

Turn the computer on and wait for it to start up.

Insert the PictureProject installer CD into the CD-ROM drive.

The Install Center program will launch automatically and a “Select Region” dialog will be displayed. Select a region and click Next. (The “Select Region” dialog is not displayed in the European release of PictureProject. European users can proceed directly to Step 3).

A language selection dialog will be displayed. Select a language

and click Next.

If the Install Center Program Does Not Launch Automatically: Select My Computer from the Start menu (Windows XP Home Edition/Windows XP Professional; in other versions of Windows, double-click the My Computer icon on the desktop) and double-click the CD (PictureProject) icon in the “My Computer” window.

Click Easy Install. The standard install includes:

• Mass Storage driver (Windows 98SE only)

• Driver for D1-series cameras

• Apple QuickTime 6

• Nikon FotoShare (Europe only)

• PictureProject

• Microsoft® DirectX 9

Windows 98SE

Clicking Easy Install displays the dialog shown at right. Follow the on-screen instructions to install the Mass Storage (Coolpix Camera) driver.

Follow the on-screen instructions to install the driver for D1-

series cameras.

Click Yes or Finish to restart the computer (the dialog shown below at right will be displayed

only if DirectX has been installed).

The PictureProject Import Assistant will be displayed when the

computer restarts. The Import Assistant can be used to catalog pictures already on the computer for display in PictureProject. For more information, see the PictureProject Reference Manual (on CD).

Click Close to transfer new photos from the camera without ﬁ rst cataloging existing pictures.

Remove the PictureProject installer CD from the CD-ROM drive before shutting down the com-

puter.

Macintosh

Turn the computer on and wait for it to start up.

Insert the PictureProject installer CD into a CD-ROM drive. Double-click the PictureProject

installer CD icon on the desktop, then double-click the Welcome icon.

The “Select Region” dialog will be displayed. Select a region

and click Next. (The “Select Region” dialog is not displayed in the European release of PictureProject. European users can proceed directly to Step 4).

A language-selection dialog will be displayed; select a language

and click Next.

The Install Center program will launch automatically. Click Easy

Install to install PictureProject. Apple QuickTime 6 will also be installed if an earlier version is currently installed on the computer.

Once installation is complete, European users can install Nikon

FotoShare by copying the “FotoShare” icon to the hard disk (Step 12).

The message shown at right will be displayed (Europe only;

users in other areas can proceed directly to Step 7). Click OK.

When the computer restarts, log in to the account you used

to install PictureProject. The PictureProject Import Assistant will be displayed. The Import Assistant can be used to catalog pictures already on the computer for display in PictureProject. For more information, see the PictureProject Reference Manual (on CD).

Click Close to transfer new photos from the camera without ﬁ rst cataloging existing pictures.

After exiting the Import Assistant, open the “FotoShare” folder on the PictureProject installer

CD and install Nikon FotoShare by dragging the Nikon FotoShare icon to the “Applications” folder on the hard disk (note that FotoShare is included only with the European release of PictureProject). When copying is complete, remove the PictureProject installer CD from the CD-ROM drive.

Step 2—Transfer Pictures

Use a Reliable Power Source

When transferring pictures between the camera and the computer, use a fully-charged EN-EL3a battery. If in doubt, charge the battery before beginning transfer or use an EH-5 AC adapter (available separately). Do not, under any circumstances, use another make or model of AC adapter.

Turn the camera off and insert a memory card that contains pictures (see the front of this guide

for information on inserting memory cards).

Turn the computer on and wait for it to start up. Using the UC-E4 USB cable, connect the

camera to the computer as shown below.

USB Hub

The camera may not function as expected when connected via a USB hub or keyboard.

Turn the camera on. PictureProject will automatically detect the camera and display the

PictureProject Transfer window.

AutoPlay (Windows XP)

When you turn the camera on, the dialog shown at right will be displayed. Select Copy pictures to a folder on my computer using PictureProject and click OK to start PictureProject. To bypass this dialog in the future, check Always do the selected action.

Click Transfer to transfer all the pictures on the camera memory card to the computer.

Se lect Copy pic tures to a

folder on my com put er using PictureProject

The pictures will be displayed in the PictureProject window when transfer is complete.

Windows

Macintosh

If the computer is connected to the Internet, PictureProject will periodically check for updates. If an update is detected when PictureProject starts, an update dialog will be displayed. Follow the on-screen instructions to update to the latest version of PictureProject.

Once your pictures are displayed in PictureProject, transfer is complete and you can remove the

camera from the system.

Windows XP Home Edition/Windows XP Professional

Click the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon ( ) in the taskbar and select Safely remove 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.

Installation of QuickTime 6 opens with the dialog shown at

right. Click Yes.

The Nikon FotoShare setup program will start. Follow the on-

screen instructions to complete installation. * Nikon FotoShare is available only in the European release of

PictureProject.

Click OK to exit the Nikon FotoShare setup program.

The PictureProject setup program will now start. After reading

the license agreement, click Yes to accept the agreement and proceed with installation.

Click Next to install PictureProject to the default destination

folder (to select a different folder, click Browse...). A conﬁ rmation dialog will be displayed; click Yes to create the destination folder. To create a shortcut to PictureProject on the desktop, click Yes when prompted. Click Finish to exit the PictureProject installer when installation is complete.

Enter the administrator name and password and click OK.

After reading the license agreement, click Accept to accept its

terms and display the ReadMe ﬁ le. Take a few moments to read this ﬁ le, which may contain important information that could not be included in this guide. After reading the ReadMe, click Continue… to proceed with installation.

Click Install. A dialog will be displayed asking if you want to

use PictureProject Transfer with digital cameras; click Yes to have PictureProject Transfer start automatically when a camera is connected. To add PictureProject to the Dock, click Yes when prompted. Click Quit to exit the PictureProject installer when installation is complete.

Apple QuickTime 6

If an older version of QuickTime is installed on your computer, the QuickTime 6 installer will start automatically. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete installation. When the dialog shown at right is displayed, click Continue without completing the “Registered To,” “Organization,” and “Registration Number” ﬁ elds. On some systems, the QuickTime installer may require considerable time to complete installation.

Click Restart to restart the computer (the dialog shown below at right will be displayed only if

QuickTime 6 has been installed).

Windows

Macintosh

PictureProject

The main controls in PictureProject are as follows:

Picture list

Lists the pictures in the currently selected collection or folder.

Mac OS X

Drag the “NIKON D70S” camera volume into the Trash.

Click to view and organize the pictures in the currently selected collection or folder.

Edit button

Click to edit the selected picture. The tools available include cropping as well as brightness and hue adjustment.

Click to arrange the pictures in the selected album in a variety of layouts.

The muvee option requires DirectX 9 or later. If an earlier version

is installed, the dialog shown at right will be displayed. Follow the on-screen instructions to install DirectX 9.

A list of the collections and folders in which pictures are cataloged.

Other options include printing, e-mail, slide shows, and saving pictures to CD or DVD (Mac OS X version 10.2.8 or later required to use Burn Disc option under Mac OS X).

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