Nikon Coolpix L21 Users Manual

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d Date
Set the camera clock.
Setting Travel Destination Time Zone
1Use the multi selector to choose Time zone 
and press k.
The Time zone menu is displayed.
2Choose xTravel destination and press k.
The date and time displayed on the monitor changes 
according to the region currently selected. Press dMz (setup menu) (A86)Md Date
Date
Set camera clock to current date and time.
Use the multi selector to set the date and time.
•Highlight an item (day, month, year, hour, minute, and the order in which day, 
month, and year are displayed): Press J or K.
•Edit the highlighted item: Press H or I.
•Finish setting: After selecting the order in which the day, month, and year are 
displayed, press k (A16).
Time zone
Set the home (w) time zone (district) or daylight saving time. When the destination 
(x) time zone is selected, the time difference (A91) is automatically calculated 
and the date and time in the selected region are recorded. Useful when travelling.
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Date
Date
15/05/2010
Time zone
Exit
15:30Time zone
Home time zone
Travel destination
15/05/2010
Exit
London, Casablanca
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3Press K.
The new city time zone menu is displayed.
4Press J or K to select the travel destination 
region (time zone).
When using the camera in an area where daylight saving 
time is in effect, press H to adjust the camera’s time for 
daylight saving time. W will be displayed in the top of the 
monitor and the time will advance one hour. To turn off 
the daylight saving time setting, press I.
Press k to enter the travel destination.
While the travel destination time zone is selected, the Z icon will be displayed in the 
monitor when the camera is in shooting mode.
15:30Time zone
Home time zone
Travel destination
15/05/2010
Exit
London, Casablanca
Back
10:30
-05:00
EDT:
New York
To r o n t o
Lima
BThe Clock Battery
The camera’s clock is powered by a clock battery that is independent of the batteries that powers 
the camera. The clock battery charges when the main batteries are installed or an AC adapter is 
connected, and can provide several days of backup power after about ten hours of charging.
Cw (Home Time Zone)
•To switch to the home time zone, choose w in step 2 and press k.
•To change the home time zone, choose w in step 2 and perform steps 3 and 4, to set the home 
time zone.
C Daylight Saving Time
When the summer saving time begins or ends, turn the daylight saving time option on or off using 
the home time zone display in Step 4.
DImprinting the date on pictures
After setting the date and time, set the Date imprint setting in the setup menu (A94). Once Date 
imprint is set, the shooting date and time can be imprinted on the image data when taking 
pictures.
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DTime Zones
The camera supports the time zones listed below.
For time zones not listed below, set the camera’s clock manually to local time using Date in the 
setup menu.
UTC 
+/-Time zoneUTC 
+/-Time zone
-11 Midway, Samoa +1 Madrid, Paris, Berlin
-10 Hawaii, Tahiti +2 Athens, Helsinki, Ankara
-9 Alaska, Anchorage +3Moscow, Nairobi, Riyadh, Kuwait, 
Manama
-8PST (PDT): Los Angeles, Seattle, 
Vancouver+4 Abu Dhabi, Dubai
-7 MST (MDT): Denver, Phoenix, La Paz +5 Islamabad, Karachi
-6CST (CDT): Chicago, Houston, Mexico 
City+5.5 New Delhi
-5 EST (EDT): New York, Toronto, Lima +6 Colombo, Dhaka
-4.5 Caracas +7 Bangkok, Jakarta
-4 Manaus +8 Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore
-3 Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo +9 Tokyo, Seoul
-2 Fernando de Noronha +10 Sydney, Guam
-1 Azores +11 New Caledonia
±0 London, Casablanca +12 Auckland, Fiji
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e Monitor Settings
The following settings are available.
Press dMz (setup menu) (A86)Me Monitor settings 
Photo info
Choose information displayed in monitor during shooting and playback mode. 
➝ A93
Image review
•On (default setting): Pictures are automatically displayed briefly immediately 
after shooting.
•Off: Pictures are not displayed after shooting.
Brightness
Choose from five settings for monitor brightness. The default setting is 3.
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Photo Info
Select whether or not photo info is displayed.
See “The Monitor” (A8, 9) for information on indicators in the monitor.
Shooting modePlayback mode
Show info
Auto info
(default setting)The same information as in Show info is displayed. If no operations are 
performed after a few seconds, the display will be the same as Hide 
info. The information is displayed again when an operation is 
performed.
Hide info
Framing grid
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In the following shooting modes, 
a framing grid appears to help 
frame pictures, in addition to the 
information displayed in Auto 
info.
•G Easy auto mode
•A Auto mode
In other shooting modes, the 
same information as in Auto info 
is displayed.
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The current settings or operation 
guide is displayed, as in Auto info 
above.
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f Date Imprint
Imprint the shooting date and time on pictures. Date 
can be printed from printers that do not support the 
date imprinting (A71).
At settings other than Off, the icon for the current setting is displayed in the 
monitor (A8).
Press dMz (setup menu) (A86)Mf Date imprint
Off (default setting)
Date and time are not imprinted on pictures.
Date
The date is imprinted in the bottom right corner of pictures.
Date and time
The date and time is imprinted in the bottom right corner of pictures.
15.05.201015.05.201015.05.2010
BDate imprint
•Imprinted dates form a permanent part of image data and cannot be deleted.
•Date imprint is disabled in the following situations.
- When using the Panorama assist scene mode
- When using movie mode
•Dates imprinted at an Image mode setting (A74) of O 640×480 may be difficult to read. 
Choose N 1024×768 or larger when using date imprint.
•The date is recorded using the format selected in the setup menu’s Date item (A16, 89).
CDate Imprint and Print Set
When pictures are printed from DPOF-compatible printers that can print date and photo 
information, you can use Print Set (A70) and print the shooting date and photo information on 
the pictures. In such a case, it is unnecessary to imprint date and time on pictures beforehand using 
Date Imprint.
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w Electronic VR
Choose whether to use electronic VR (vibration reduction) when taking still 
pictures.
When Auto is selected, R appears on the monitor (A8), and electronic VR is 
applied depending on shooting conditions.
Press the d button M z (Setup menu) (A85) M w Electronic VR
Auto
When all of the following conditions are met while taking still pictures, electronic VR 
is applied and the effects of camera shake are reduced.
•The flash is turned off or set to slow sync mode.
•The shutter speed is slow.
•The Continuous setting is set to Single.
•When the subject is dark.
Off (default setting)
Electronic VR is disabled.
BNotes on Electronic Vibration Reduction
•Electronic VR is disabled while the flash is used, except when using slow sync mode. Note that 
Electronic VR is disabled even when flash mode is slow sync with red-eye reduction (A37, 38).
•If the exposure period exceeds a certain period of time, Electronic VR will not function.
•Electronic VR cannot be used when using the following scene modes.
-Sports (A37)
- Night portrait (A37)
-Dusk/dawn (A39)
-Night landscape (A39)
- Museum (A40)
- Fireworks show (A41)
-Backlight (A41)
•The effectiveness of Electronic VR decreases as camera shake increases.
•Pictures taken using motion detection may be somewhat grainy.
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U Motion detection
Set whether or not the camera automatically increases the shutter speed to 
reduce blurring when motion is detected while shooting still pictures.
The icon for the current setting is displayed in the monitor when the camera is in 
shooting mode (A21). When the camera detects shaking and increases shutter 
speed, the motion detection indicator turns green. No icon is displayed when Off 
is selected.
Press dMz (setup menu) (A86)MUMotion detection
Auto (default setting)
In order to reduce the effects of camera shake or subject movement, ISO 
sensitivity and shutter speed are increased when the camera detects camera 
shake or subject movement.
However, motion detection does not function in the following situations.
•When flash mode is set to m (fill flash)
•When Multi-shot 16 (A78) is selected
•When scene mode is set to Night portrait (A37), Dusk/dawn (A39), 
Fireworks show (A41) or Backlight (A41)
Off
Motion detection is not enabled.
BNotes on Motion Detection
•Blurring caused by camera shake or subject movement may not be eliminated in some situations.
•Motion detection may not function if camera shake or subject movement is excessive, or if there is 
insufficient lighting.
•The pictures taken may become somewhat grainy.
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h AF Assist
Change settings for AF-assist illumination.
Press dMz (setup menu) (A86)MhAF assist
Auto (default setting)
AF-assist illumination will be used to assist the focus operation when the subject is 
poorly lit. The illuminator has a range of about 1.9 m (6 ft. 2 in.) at the maximum 
wide-angle position and 1.1 m (3 ft. 7 in.) at the maximum telescopic position. 
However, the AF-assist illumination will not turn on in some scene modes even if 
Auto is selected (A36-41).
Off
Disable this function. The camera may be unable to focus if lighting is poor.
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i Sound Settings
Adjust the following sound settings.
Press dMz (setup menu) (A86)Mi Sound settings
Button sound
Turn the button sound On or Off. When On (default setting) is selected, a beep 
will sound once when operations are completed successfully, two times when the 
focus has been locked, and three times when an error is detected, and welcome 
sound is played when the camera is turned on.
Shutter sound
Choose shutter sound from On (default setting) or Off.
Even when set to On, the shutter sound is not heard in the following situations.
•When using Continuous, BSS, or Multi-shot 16
•When using Sports or Museum
•When shooting movies
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