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Public Wireless LAN Connection Guide

(How to Use my Picturetown)

• Picture upload services via a public wireless LAN are only available in the U.S.A.

• Before you begin, read pages 4 to 5 of the User’s Manual.

Disclaimer of Warranties. NIKON’S my Picturetown SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS”
BASIS AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE WHICH ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. YOU AND ANY USER
OF NIKON’S my Picturetown SERVICE ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK IN YOUR USE
OF THE NIKON COOLPIX SERVICE. IN NO EVENT DOES NIKON CORPORATION, NIKON INC.,
OR ANY OF ITS RESPECTIVE SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, DISTRIBUTORS OR DEALERS
(collectively “NIKON”) WARRANT THAT THE NIKON my Picturetown SERVICE WILL BE
UNINTERRUPTED, ALWAYS AVAILABLE, ACCURATE, FUNCTIONAL OR ERROR FREE. SOME
STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE DISCLAIMER OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE
EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Limitation of Liability. EVEN IF NIKON HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
DAMAGES, NIKON WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY USER OF THE NIKON my
Picturetown OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING FROM USE OF THE NIKON
my Picturetown SERVICE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES; LOSS OF PRIVACY OR SECURITY
DAMAGES; PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGES; OR ANY DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM INTERRUPTION OR FAILURE OF SERVICE; LOST PROFITS;
LOSS OF BUSINESS; LOSS OF OR FAILURE TO PRESERVE DATA, PICTURES OR IMAGES; LOSS
DUE TO UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS OR DUE TO VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL
COMPONENTS; THE INABILITY TO USE THE NIKON my Picturetown SERVICE; OR THE
INTERCEPTION OR LOSS OF ANY DATA, PICTURES, IMAGES OR TRANSMISSION. SOME
STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR OTHER MODIFICATIONS OF OR LIMITATIONS TO CERTAIN
REMEDIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Privacy and Security. PRIVACY CANNOT BE GUARANTEED, AND NIKON IS NOT LIABLE TO
YOU OR ANY OTHER PARTY FOR ANY LACK OF PRIVACY WHILE USING THE NIKON my
Picturetown SERVICE. NIKON HAS THE RIGHT, BUT NOT THE OBLIGATION TO MONITOR,
INTERCEPT AND DISCLOSE ANY TRANSMISSIONS OVER OR USING THE NIKON my
Picturetown SERVICES. YOU AND ANY USER OF NIKON’S my Picturetown SERVICE
ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS SERVICE IS NOT INHERENTLY SECURE AND THAT WIRELESS
COMMUNICATIONS CAN BE INTERCEPTED BY EQUIPMENT AND SOFTWARE DESIGNED
FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Thank you for purchasing the Nikon COOLPIX S51c!

The COOLPIX S51c’s wireless LAN feature allows users to take advantage of the my Picturetown
services, with which pictures can be uploaded to the server on the Internet for viewing by your
family and friends, or the server can be used as a personal storage for storing pictures. The follow­ing services are available with my Picturetown:

Picture Mail: Pictures are uploaded to the my Picturetown server, and e-mail

upload will be sent to specified recipients. Uploaded pictures can be viewed by accessing the
webpage specified in the e-mail notification from a computer or cellular telephone*.

* The use of cellular telephone e-mail addresses is only possible in the United States, and is supported

only for BlackBerry smartphones (version 4.0 or later recommended).
However, pictures cannot be viewed with some of these cellular telephones.

Picture Bank: Pictures are uploaded to the my Picturetown server for storage. The my Picturetown
server can then be used as a personal server for storing pictures and uploaded pictures can also be
displayed in your web browser and downloaded to a computer.

Connect to the Internet at locations where home or public wireless LAN is available. This guide pro­vides step-by-step instructions for connecting to a public wireless LAN to upload pictures.

Take pictures...

Access uploaded pictures on the
server!

l T-Mobile HotSpot

Connection of the camera to a public wireless LAN requires a T-Mobile HotSpot subscription. You can
begin using the T-Mobile HotSpot service by signing up and creating an account at the URL below:
http://hotspot.t-mobile.com/

After signing up for the T-Mobile HotSpot wireless Internet service, prepare the SSID, user ID, pass­word, and WEP key. The full user ID, including “@” and the domain name that follows, must be used.

l Six Months of Complimentary T-Mobile HotSpot Wi-Fi Service

Purchase of this camera includes six months of complimentary T-Mobile HotSpot Wi-Fi service, which
allows you to connect to, and take advantage of, my Picturetown at thousands of locations nation­wide. Note that your six months of complimentary service is only available in the United States and
begins automatically the first time you connect using T-Mobile HotSpot. After the complimentary ser­vice expires, if you wish to continue using the T-Mobile HotSpot service, you need to sign up and cre­ate an account with T-Mobile HotSpot. To upload pictures after signing up for the T-Mobile HotSpot
service, configure a new network profile with the camera (as described in Step 7 on page 14).
This complimentary service offer will definitely expire on August 31st, 2008 and is effective for up
to six months only. With the expiry date in mind, If you start using T-Mobile HotSpot after March
2008, the complimentary service will expire in less than six months.

l Connect to a Home Wireless LAN

Before connecting to a home wireless LAN, configuration of the sender information with the cam­era may be required depending upon the intended home wireless LAN environment. For more in­formation, refer to the User’s Manual.

and upload them via a public wireless LAN...
Pictures are uploaded while traveling!
E-mail notification of picture upload is sent
immediately to your family and friends!

notification of picture

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Table of contents

Upload pictures to the my Picturetown server 5

Step

Step

Step

Step

Step

Step

Step

Register user information with my Picturetown to view
uploaded pictures

Picture Mail operation

Picture Bank operation

Connect the AC adaptor to the camera to upload all pictures 18

Step

Step

Step

Locate public T-Mobile HotSpots 5

1

Select Picture Mail or Picture Bank 6

2

Configure your alias and e-mail address 8

3

Select pictures 9

4

Specify a Picture Mail recipient 10

5

Specify recipients for selected pictures 12

6

Upload pictures 14

7

Connect the AC adapter to the camera 19

1

Configure your alias and e-mail address 20

2

Configure a network profile 21

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Screen images in monitor may differ from the actual display.

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Upload pictures to the my Picturetown server

Step

Locate public T-Mobile
HotSpots

1

Access the URL below to locate public T-Mobile HotSpots where your
camera’s wireless LAN feature can be used.

http://hotspot.t-mobile.com/

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Step

Select Picture Mail or Picture
Bank

2

Before using the camera’s wireless LAN feature, be sure that you have taken at least
one picture with the camera. If pictures have not been recorded, take pictures or insert
a memory card containing pictures into the camera.

Use Picture Mail

1 Turn on the camera.
2 Press d.

Use Picture Bank

1 Turn on the camera.
2 Apply playback mode.

When the camera is in shooting mode, press i to switch to playback mode.
For more information on playback mode, refer to page 28 of the User’s Man-
ual.

3 Press C.

The playback-mode selection menu will be displayed.

4 Use the rotary multi selector to choose M

and press d.

my Picturetown

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Entering Text with the Camera

Text for information such as aliases, e-mail addresses, and
WEP keys can be entered using the camera.

•Press d to change the type of character entered in the

following order: uppercase letters ➞ lowercase
letters ➞ numbers ➞ symbols ➞ uppercase letters,
and so on.

• Rotate the rotary multi selector clockwise, or press the

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Email

Nik n4oxxx

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rotary multi selector G, to enter letters (A to Z) in alpha­betical order. Rotate the rotary multi selector counter­clockwise, or press the rotary multi selector H, to enter
letters in reverse order.

Confirm

Back Delete

• Press the rotary multi selector J to move the cursor to the right. Press the rotary
multi selector I to move the cursor to the left.

•Press T to delete the letters at the cursor position. However, T cannot be used
when entering information for an item that requires a fixed number of characters.

•Press v (l) to preview the letters that have been entered. Press v (l) again to
return to the text entry screen.

• Press the shutter-release button to apply selection.

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Step

3

Configure your alias and e-mail
address

1 Select [Input] and press d.

2 Enter an alias for yourself (choose an alias,

up to 16 alphanumerical characters, that
identifies you) and press the shutter-release
button.

3 Enter your e-mail address (up to 64 alphanu-

merical characters) and press the shutter-re­lease button.

- Cellular telephone e-mail addresses are not sup­ported.

- No error message, or indication that an error has
occurred, is sent from the server when delivery er­rors occur due to incorrect entry of e-mail addresses.

Enter sender info

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Enter your alias and
email address

Input

Cancel

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Alias

Nik no 4

Confirm

Back Delete

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Email

Nik n4oxxx

@

Confirm

Back Delete

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Step

Select pictures

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When Picture Mail was selected in Step 2

Select pictures.

1 Press the rotary multi selector IJ to select

one picture.

Proceed to Step 5.

When Picture Bank was selected in Step 2

Upload selected pictures.

1 Choose pictures.

- Use the rotary multi selector to choose pictures
and press d to choose a desired picture (y).
Press d again to cancel a selection.

- Up to 30 pictures can be selected.

- Press v (k) to switch to full-frame playback;
press t (j) to return to thumbnail display.

- Press the shutter-release button to finalize picture selection.

2 Upload pictures.

- Choose [Yes] and press the shutter-release but­ton.

- Pressing d, instead of the shutter-release but­ton, also initiates picture upload.

- Proceed to Step 7.

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Queue mail

New

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Select image 5

Confirm

Send pictures

Send pictures?

No

Yes

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Confirm

ON/OFF

Confirm

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Step

Specify a Picture Mail recipient

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Register your family and friends as Picture Mail recipients by entering their e-mail ad­dresses.

1 Use the rotary multi selector to move [New]

to the selection area and press d.

Queue mail

New

gh

Selection area

a

Confirm

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2 Choose [Address] and press d.

Up to 30 recipient e-mail addresses can be added.

3 Enter recipient’s e-mail address (up to 64 al-

phanumerical characters) and press the
shutter-release button.

E-mail addresses for only certain models of cellular
telephones are supported.

New

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Address

Group

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Email

Nik n1oxxx

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Confirm

Back Delete

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4 Press the shutter-release button.

lRecipient Aliases

An alias can be registered for each recipient using the camera’s setup menu, or the
my Picturetown Utility, to make recipient selection easier. See pages 132 and 136 of
the User’s Manual for further information.

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Create a Recipient Group

Recipients can be grouped for specification of multiple recipients as a single Picture
Mail recipient. This is useful when sending multiple Picture Mails to the same re­cipients.

1 Follow the procedure described in Step 5-1.
2 Select [Group] and press d.

Up to 5 groups can be created.

New

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Address

Group

3 Specify the group’s name (up to 16 alpha-

numerical characters) and press the shut­ter-release button.

4 Select recipients for the group.

- Use the rotary multi selector to highlight recip-

ients and press d to select the recipients (y).
Press d again to cancel the selection.

- Up to 30 recipients can be added to each
group.

- Press the shutter-release button to finalize re­cipient selection.

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Group

Nik no

Confirm

Back Delete

Choose address

[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

Back

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ON/OFFnConfirm

Step

6

Specify recipients for selected
pictures

1 Choose recipients.

- Rotate the rotary multi selector to move b (recip-

ients) to the selection area, and press d to select
the recipient (a). Press d again to cancel the
selection.

- The number displayed at the top right of the
monitor indicates the number of recipients speci-

Queue mail

a

b

[e-mail]

a

b

a

b

gh

b

b

a

b

ON/OFF

Selection area

a

Confirm

fied for a displayed picture.

2 Press the shutter-release button to add the Picture Mail to the

queue.

- To specify recipients for different pictures, repeat Steps 4 and 6-1 before
applying the setting. Up to 30 pictures can be selected.

- Press t (j) to switch to thumbnail display to preview the pictures select-
ed in the queue mail screen. Press v (k) to return to the queue mail screen.

3 Choose [Yes] and press d.

- The camera will search for available SSIDs.

- When connection is established, all the pictures in
the queue will be uploaded. Proceed to Step 7.

- To upload pictures later, choose [No].

Send pictures

Your Picture Mail has
been added to the
queue. Send now?

No

Ye s

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jSend Picture Mail in the Queue

When d is pressed in shooting or playback mode, the queue mail screen shown in
Step 6-1 will be displayed. Confirm the selected pictures and specified recipients, and
press the shutter-release button to send Picture Mail in the queue. To cancel the
queue, cancel the recipients or groups specified for pictures and press the shutter-re­lease button.

kAfter Sending Picture Mail

When pictures are uploaded using Picture Mail in Step 7, e-mail notification will be
sent automatically to the specified recipients for the intended pictures. Recipients can
click the URL included in e-mail notification to view and download the pictures stored
on the my Picturetown server.

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Step

7

Upload pictures

1 Choose the SSID and press d.

If you are using the T-Mobile HotSpot Wi-Fi service,
choose [tmobile].

2 When the WEP key entry screen is displayed,

enter the WEP key provided by T-Mobile
HotSpot and press the shutter-release but­ton.

- If you are using the six months of complimentary
T-Mobile HotSpot Wi-Fi service, the screen shown
at right will not be displayed.

- The screen for connecting to the access point will
be displayed.

3 When the user ID entry screen is displayed,

enter the user ID provided by T-Mobile
HotSpot (including “@” and the domain
name that follows) and press the shutter-re­lease button.

If you are using the six months of complimentary
T-Mobile HotSpot Wi-Fi service, the screen shown
at right will not be displayed.

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Select SSID

tmobile

Back

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WEP key

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Confirm

Back Delete

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T Mobile HotSpot

Connecting to access point

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User name

Nik no 1

Confirm

Back Delete

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Cancel

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4 When the password entry screen is dis-

played, enter the password provided by
T-Mobile HotSpot and press the shutter-re­lease button.

If you are using the six months of complimentary
T-Mobile HotSpot Wi-Fi service, the screen shown
at right will not be displayed.

5 Picture upload begins.

The screen for connecting to the server will be dis­played.

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Password

Nik no 1

Confirm

Back Delete

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Connecting to server

Cancel

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6 When upload is complete, the message

shown at right will be displayed.

Press d to exit Picture Mail or Picture Bank.
If there is Picture Mail in the queue when a Picture

Bank upload is initiated, queued Picture Mails will
be sent at the same time.

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Transfer complete.
Connection terminated.

Exit

Register user information with my Picturetown to view uploaded pictures

Register user information with the my Picturetown server to view pictures that are up­loaded using Picture Mail or Picture Bank. This server acts as an archive for protecting
and sharing pictures recorded with the camera. Until user registration has been com­plete, uploaded pictures are stored in a temporary space on the server and cannot be
viewed. Once user registration has been complete, private space on the server will be
reserved for uploaded pictures, and the pictures can be viewed and downloaded by
accessing the server from a computer.

Register user information with my Picturetown

When pictures are uploaded using Picture Mail or Picture Bank for the first time, e-mail
notification requesting user registration will be sent to the sender e-mail address regis­tered with the camera. Click the link in the e-mail notification to display the user regis­tration webpage.
Enter the following information on the user registration webpage.
Key information: Key information is assigned to each
camera. Select the [Key information] option from the
[Wireless settings] item in the camera’s setup menu and
press d to display the key information for your camera.
For more information on the camera’s setup menu, see
page 104 of the User’s Manual.
Password: Create a password to access your private space
on the server and be sure that you do not forget it.

1 Open the e-mail notification requesting user registration on a

computer with an Internet connection and click the link provided.

The user registration webpage will be displayed in your web browser. Use
one of the following compliant web browsers to properly view the webpage:

- Windows: Internet Explorer 6 or later

- Macintosh: Safari 2 or later

The sender alias and e-mail address registered with the camera will be dis­played.

2 Enter the assigned key information and a password to register

your user information.

User registration is complete once the user information has been sent to the
server.

Key information

XXXX

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jNotes on User Registration

• After the first picture upload, register user information as soon as possible to protect
pictures, along with other personal information, from unsolicited viewing or theft.
Until user information is registered, pictures are uploaded to temporary space on the
server with no security measures applied.

• Until user information is registered, e-mail notification requesting user registration
will be sent whenever pictures are uploaded. If you do not receive the e-mail notifi­cation, sender information registered with the camera may be incorrect. Correct
sender information and upload pictures again.

• Once user information has been registered, information including the sender’s alias
and e-mail address cannot be edited from the camera or the Utility. Access the my
Picturetown server from a computer to edit user information.

• If you forget the password and reset all wireless settings after you have applied the
password, e-mail notification requesting user registration will be sent to the sender’s
e-mail address the next time pictures are uploaded. Click the link provided in the e­mail notification to access the user registration webpage.

• Before discarding the camera or transferring it to another owner, confirm whether
or not pictures have been uploaded once. If pictures have ever been uploaded, be
sure to register user information with the server, and then reset all wireless settings.

• If this camera was given to you by a previous owner, reset all wireless settings before
using the camera and taking advantage of wireless services.

For more information on user registration, see pages 134, for applying a password,
and 135, for resetting all wireless settings, of the User’s Manual.

kMore on User Registration

Refer to the instructions included in the e-mail notification received, as well as those
in the user registration webpage itself, for more information.

lNote on Protecting Personal Information

Once a wireless service has been used, personal information is saved in the camera and
on the my Picturetown server. To protect personal information from unsolicited view­ing or theft, apply a password to protect data stored in the camera, and register user
information with the server to protect uploaded data. It is highly recommended that
these protection measures be applied.

lAccess the my Picturetown Website

You can visit the my Picturetown website at the following URL:
http://mypicturetown.com/

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Connect the AC adaptor to the camera to upload all pictures

Picture Bank offers two options for uploading pictures. Upload selected pictures to the
server (as described on pages 5 to 15), or initiate upload of all pictures when the AC
adapter is connected to the camera.
This section introduces connection to my Picturetown and upload of all pictures, initi­ated with connection of the AC adapter, via a home wireless LAN. Infrastructure
mode, which utilizes an access point, is required to use a home wireless LAN. For more
information on configuring a network profile for home wireless LAN, see page 126 of
the User’s Manual.

Upload all pictures!

Battery charge begins
after picture upload!

Take pictures... Connect the AC

This section describes a home wireless LAN for which the only security applied is en­cryption with a WEP key. Configure home wireless LAN settings at a location that is
physically near the access point.

adapter...

Home Wireless LAN Settings

• If the access point does not allow connection by any wireless device, or if MAC ad­dress filtering is enabled, modify access point settings to allow connection by any
wireless device and configure the camera’s MAC address with the access point. Re­fer to “Firmware version” on page 119 of the User’s Manual.

• Home wireless LAN configuration can vary from one user to another. If authenti­cation or another type of encryption is enabled, refer to “Configuring Wireless LAN
Settings from the Camera” on page 126 and “Configuring Wireless LAN Settings
from the Utility” on page 136 of the User’s Manual to apply the appropriate set­tings for the home wireless LAN.

• For more information on home wireless LANs, refer to other commercially available
references on wireless LAN.

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Step

Connect the AC adapter to the
camera

1

1 Turn the camera off.
2 Connect the AC adapter to the camera’s multi connector, and plug

the power cable into an outlet.

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3

1

The message, [Starting upload to Picture Bank], will
be displayed.

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Starting upload to
Picture Bank

Cancel

kSetting the Camera’s Clock

When the camera’s built-in clock has not been set, the message shown above is not
displayed. Refer to page 6 of the Quick Start Guide and set the camera’s clock.

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Step

Configure your alias and e-mail
address

2

When the sender’s information has been configured with the camera in Step 3 of “Up­load pictures to the my Picturetown server” on page 8, the following screens will not
be displayed. Proceed to Step 3 on page 21.

1 Select [Input] and press d.

Enter sender info

Enter your alias and
email address

Input

Cancel

2 Enter your alias (choose an alias, up to 16 al-

phanumerical characters, that identifies
you) and press the shutter-release button.

For information on entering text, see “Entering Text
with the Camera” on page 7.

3 Enter your e-mail address (up to 64 alphanu-

merical characters) and press the shutter-re­lease button.

- Cellular telephone e-mail addresses are not sup­ported.

- No error message, or indication that an error has
occurred, is sent from the server when delivery er­rors occur due to incorrect entry of e-mail addresses.

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Alias

Nik no 4

Confirm

Back Delete

Email

Nik n4oxxx

@

Confirm

Back Delete

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Step

3

Configure a network profile

1 Choose the desired SSID (wireless LAN net-

work name) and press d.

- If the WEP key entry screen is displayed, enter the
WEP key and press the shutter-release button.

- The screen for connecting to the access point will
be displayed.

Select SSID

AP1

AP2

Back

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WEP key

123 1423412

Confirm

Back Delete

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AP1

Connecting to access point

- The screens for connecting to the server, and for uploading pictures to the
server, will be displayed in order. When the upload is complete, the mes­sage shown below will be displayed.

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Connecting to server

Cancel

11MB:Available
Transferring images
to server.

002/030

Cancel

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Transfer complete.
Connection terminated.

- If there is Picture Mail in the queue (as described on page 12), queued Pic­ture Mails will be sent at the same time.

- Once upload is complete, the camera turns off, the power-on lamp blinks
orange, and the battery begins charging.

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Cancel

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Register user information with the my Picturetown server to view uploaded pictures.
When pictures are uploaded for the first time, e-mail notification requesting user
registration will be sent to the sender e-mail address registered with the camera in
Step 3 on page 21. Refer to “Register user information with my Picturetown to view
uploaded pictures” on page 16 to attempt user registration.

kDeleting Picture Bank Pictures

You can select the [Picture Bank pictures] option from the [Delete] items in calendar
and list by date menus to delete only those pictures, taken on the specified date, that
have already been uploaded to the my Picturetown server. Refer to pages 101 and 145
of the User’s Manual for further information.

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