User manual NIKON D40X

[. . . ] Where to Find It Find what you're looking for from: The Table of Contents Find items by function or menu name. See pages v­vi The Q&A Index See pages vii­ix Know what you want to do but don't know the function name?Find it from the "question and answer" index. The Index Search by key word. See pages 123­125 Error Messages See pages 111­112 If a warning is displayed in the viewfinder or monitor, find the solution here. Troubleshooting See pages 108­110 Camera behaving unexpectedly?Find the solution here. Help Use the camera's on-board help feature for help on menu items and other topics. Digitutor Digitutor, a series of "watch and learn" manuals in movie form, is available from the following website: http://www. nikondigitutor. com/index_eng. html Introduction Tutorial Photography and Playback More on Photography (All Modes) P, S, A, and M Modes Reference More on Playback Connecting to a Computer, Printer, or TV Playback Options: The Playback Menu Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu Menu Guide Custom Settings Basic Camera Settings: The Setup Menu Creating Retouched Copies: The Retouch Menu Technical Notes i For Your Safety To prevent damage to your Nikon product or injury to yourself or to others, read the following safety precautions in their entirety before using this equipment. [. . . ] The monitor will turn off. 64 Menu Guide/Using Camera Menus Playback Options: The Playback Menu The playback menu contains the following options (options displayed may differ if My menu is selected for the CSM/Setup menu option in the setup menu; 80). See "Using Camera Menus" ( 63) for more information on using the menus. Option Delete Playback folder Rotate tall Slide show Print set (DPOF) Description Delete all or selected photos. Rotate "tall" (portrait-orientation) photos during playback. Play photos back in automatic slide shows. Select photos for printing. 65 66 66 67 67 Delete The delete menu contains the following options: Option Selected All Description Delete selected photographs (see below). Delete all photographs in the folder currently selected for playback. If the number of photographs to be deleted is very large, some time may be needed to complete the operation. Selecting Multiple Pictures To select multiple pictures for deletion: 1 Highlight picture. To view highlighted picture full frame, press button. 2 Select highlighted picture. Selection shown by icon. 3 Repeat steps 1­2 to select additional pictures. To deselect picture, highlight and press multi selector down. 4 Complete operation. Menu Guide/Playback Options: The Playback Menu 65 Playback Folder Choose a folder for playback: Description Only photos in the folder currently selected for Folders in the setup menu are displayed during playback. This option is Current selected automatically when a photo is taken. If a memory card (default) is inserted and this option selected before photos have been taken, a message stating that the folder contains no images will be displayed during playback. All Play back photos in all folders on the memory card. Option To select the folder to which new photographs will be recorded, use the Folders option in the setup menu ( 85). Rotate Tall Select On to rotate "tall" (portrait-orientation) photos for display in the camera monitor. Photographs taken with Off selected for Auto image rotation ( 88) will be displayed in "wide" (landscape) orientation. 66 Menu Guide/Playback Options: The Playback Menu Slide Show Create a slide show of the pictures in the current playback folder. The following options are available: Option Description Frame interval Choose how long each picture will be displayed. Start Start slide show. The following operations can be performed during a slide show: To Skip back/skip ahead View photo info Pause slide show Exit to playback menu Exit to playback mode Exit to shooting mode Display shooting information Use Description Press multi selector left to return to previous frame, right to skip to next frame. Change photo info displayed ( 51). Pause slide show. End slide show and return to playback menu. End slide show and return to full-frame ( 50) or thumbnail playback ( 52). Shutter Press shutter-release button halfway to return to shooting mode. release Display shooting information ( 22). The dialog shown at right is displayed when the show ends or when the button is pressed to pause playback. Select Restart to restart the show or Exit to return to the playback menu. Print Set (DPOF) Choose Select/set to select photographs for printing on a PictBridge printer or DPOF-compatible device ( 57). [. . . ] See Shooting mode, 88, 103 self timer Picture Transfer Protocol. See Self-timer (Custom Settings USB, MTP/PTP menu), 79 (flexible program indicator), Self-portraits. See Remote con5, 40 trol; Self timer Playback, 20, 50­54 Sensitivity. See ISO sensitivity full frame, 20, 50 Sepia. [. . . ]