Nikon Coolpix S560 User Manual
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117 Basic Camera Setup: The Setup Menu Shooting, Playback and Setup Menus d Date Set the camera clock and choose home and travel destination time zones. Setting Travel Destination Time Zone 1Use the multi selector to choose Time zone and press k. The time zone menu is displayed. 2Choose x and press k. The date and time displayed on the monitor changes according to the region currently selected. Date Set camera clock to current date and time. See “Setting Display Language, Date and Time” (A16) for more information. Time zone Set the home (w) time zone (district) or daylight saving time. When x (destination time zone) is selected, the time difference (A119) is automatically calculated and the date and time in the selected region are recorded. Useful when travelling. Date 15/11/2008 15:30 Date Time zone Home time zone Travel destination Time zone 15/11/2008 06:30 London, Casablanca Downloaded From camera-usermanual.com Nikon Manuals
118 Basic Camera Setup: The Setup Menu Shooting, Playback and Setup Menus 3Press K. The home time zone display appears. 4Press J or K to choose the travel destination time zone (city name). To use the camera in an area where daylight saving time is in effect, press H to display the W mark on the top of the monitor and set the daylight saving time. When the daylight saving time goes into effect, the time is automatically advanced one hour. To release the daylight saving time setting, press I. Press k to enter the travel destination. While the travel destination time zone is selected, the x icon will be displayed in the monitor when the camera is in shooting mode. BThe Clock Battery The clock battery charges when the main battery is 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 Home] in step 2 and press the k button. •To change the home time zone, choose w in step 2 and perform steps 3 and 4, to set the home time zone. CDaylight 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. London, Casablanca15/11/2008 15:30 Home time zone Travel destination Time zone Back EST: New York Toronto Lima11 : 00-13 : 00 Downloaded From camera-usermanual.com Nikon Manuals
119 Basic Camera Setup: The Setup Menu Shooting, Playback and Setup Menus CTime Zones (A16) The camera supports the time zones listed below. For time differences not listed below, set the camera clock to local time. UTC +/–LocationUTC +/–Location –11 Midway, Samoa +1 Madrid, Paris, Berlin –10 Hawaii, Tahiti +2 Athens, Helsinki, Ankara –9 Alaska, Anchorage +3Moscow, Riyadh, Kuwait, Manama, Nairobi –8PST (PDT): Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver+4 Abu Dhabi, Dubai –7MST (MDT): Denver, Phoenix, La Paz+5 Islamabad, Karachi –6CST (CDT): Chicago, Houston, Mexico City+5.5 New Delhi –5EST (EDT): New York, Toronto, Lima+6 Colombo, Dhaka –4 Caracas, Manaus +7 Bangkok, Jakarta –3 Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo +8Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore –2 Fernando de Noronha +9 Tokyo, Seoul –1 Azores +10 Sydney, Guam ±0 London, Casablanca +11 New Caledonia +12 Auckland, Fiji Downloaded From camera-usermanual.com Nikon Manuals
120 Basic Camera Setup: The Setup Menu Shooting, Playback and Setup Menus e Monitor Settings Choose whether or not to display information in the monitor, and set the monitor brightness. Photo Info The following display options are available. See “The Monitor” (A6, 7) for information on indicators in the monitor. Photo info Choose information displayed in monitor during shooting and playback mode. Brightness Choose from five settings for monitor brightness. The default setting is 3. Shooting modePlayback mode Show info Auto info (default setting)After the same information as in Show info above is displayed for a few seconds, display will be the same as Hide info. Hide info Framing grid 101818 15/11/2008 15:300004.JPG0004.JPG 4 44 4 15/11/2008 15:30 101818 In A (auto) mode, a framing grid is displayed to help frame pictures; other current settings or operation guide is displayed for a few seconds, as in Auto info above. In other shooting modes, the current settings or operation guide is displayed, as in Auto info above. 15/11/2008 15:300004.JPG0004.JPG 4 44 4 15/11/2008 15:30 The current settings or operation guide is displayed, as in Auto info above. Downloaded From camera-usermanual.com Nikon Manuals
121 Basic Camera Setup: The Setup Menu Shooting, Playback and Setup Menus f Date Imprint Date and time are imprinted on pictures. Date can be printed from printers that do not support the date imprinting (A92). At settings other than Off, the icon for the current setting is displayed in the monitor (A6). BDate Imprint •Imprinted dates form a permanent part of image data and cannot be deleted. •Date imprint is disabled in the following situations. -When the Continuous mode is set to Continuous or BSS. -When the Scene mode is set to Sports, Museum or Panorama assist. -When movies are being recorded. •Dates imprinted at an Image mode setting (A95) of TV screen (640) may be difficult to read. Choose PC screen (1024) or larger when using date imprint. •The date is recorded using the format selected in the setup menu’s Date item (A16, 117). 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 (A91) 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. Off (default setting) Date and time are not imprinted on pictures. Date Date is imprinted on the bottom right corner of pictures taken while this option is in effect. Date and time Date and time are imprinted on the bottom right corner of pictures taken while this option is in effect. Date counter Time stamp shows number of days between date of recording and selected date. Downloaded From camera-usermanual.com Nikon Manuals
122 Basic Camera Setup: The Setup Menu Shooting, Playback and Setup Menus Date Counter Pictures taken while this option is in effect are imprinted with the number of days remaining until, or the number of days elapsed since a specified date. Use it to track the growth of a child or count down the days until a birthday or wedding. Sample date counter time stamps are shown below. Stored dates Up to three dates can be stored. To set, choose an option, press the multi selector K, enter a Date (A16), and press k. To select a different date, choose an option and press k. Display options Choose Number of days, Years and days, or Yrs, mnths, days and press k. Date counter 5 01/01/2008 Display optionsStored dates Press k to display the stored dates option. Press k to display the display option. Stored dates 20/11/2008 03/12/2008 Display options Number of days Years and days Yrs, mnths, days 02/ 18.11.200802/ 18.11.2008 Two days remaining Two days elapsed 02/ 22.11.200802/ 22.11.200802/ 22.11.2008 Downloaded From camera-usermanual.com Nikon Manuals
123 Basic Camera Setup: The Setup Menu Shooting, Playback and Setup Menus g Vibration reduction Specify the vibration reduction setting for shooting pictures. Vibration reduction effectively corrects blur that commonly occurs when shooting with zooming or at slow shutter speeds. Turn vibration reduction off when using a tripod to stabilize the camera during shooting. When vibration reduction is enabled, the current setting is displayed on the monitor during shooting (When off is selected, an icon for the current setting is not displayed on the monitor.) (A6). BNotes on Vibration reduction •Vibration reduction may take a few seconds to activate after the power is turned on, or the camera enters shooting mode from playback mode. Wait until the display stabilizes before shooting. •Due to characteristics of the vibration reduction function, images displayed on the camera’s monitor immediately after shooting may appear blurry. •Vibration reduction may be unable to completely eliminate the effects of camera shaking in some situations. •“VR” stands for vibration reduction. DCompensating Movies with Electronic VR To reduce the effects of camera shake when recording movies other than time-lapse movies, enable Electronic VR (A71) from the movie menu (A70). On (default setting) Specify the vibration reduction setting for shooting pictures. The camera detects and factors out panning movements automatically when reducing camera shaking. When the camera is panned horizontally, for example, vibration reduction affects only vertical shaking. If the camera is panned vertically, vibration reduction affects only horizontal shaking. Off Electronic vibration reduction is not enabled. Downloaded From camera-usermanual.com Nikon Manuals
124 Basic Camera Setup: The Setup Menu Shooting, Playback and Setup Menus h AF Assist Change settings for AF-assist illumination. u Digital Zoom Adjust settings for using digital zoom. BNotes on Digital Zoom •When digital zoom is in effect, AF area mode is set to Center (A103). •Digital zoom cannot be used in the following situations. - When the Scene auto selector mode is selected. - When Scene Mode is set to Portrait or Night portrait. - When the smile mode is selected. - When Continuous mode is set to Multi-shot 16. - Just before recording a movie (Up to 2× zoom can be activated while recording movies other than Time-lapse movieP). Auto (default setting) The AF-assist illumination automatically turns on when the subject is poorly lit. The illuminator has a range of about 1.9 m (6.3 ft.) at the maximum wide-angle position and 1.1 m (3.6 ft.) at the maximum telescopic position. However, the AF-assist illumination will not turn on in some scene modes even if AUTO is selected (A34, 35, 36, 37, 38). Off Disable this function. The camera may be unable to focus if lighting is poor. On (default setting) Digital zoom (A23) will be activated when the g (i) is pressed when the optical zoom has been magnified to its maximum rate. Off Digital Zoom will not be activated (Except when shooting a movie). Downloaded From camera-usermanual.com Nikon Manuals
125 Basic Camera Setup: The Setup Menu Shooting, Playback and Setup Menus i Sound Settings Adjust the following sound settings. k Auto Off When the camera is on and a period of time passes without any operations been done, the camera will enter standby mode (A15) to save power. Once in standby mode, the power lamp will blink, and if no operations are performed for another three minutes the camera turns off. The time taken to enter standby mode can be set to 30 s, 1 m (default setting), 5 m, or 30 m. CNotes on Auto Off The time allowed to elapse before the camera enters standby mode is fixed in the following cases: •While menus are displayed: 3 minutes •While slide show is in progress: Up to 30 minutes •While the AC adapter is connected: 30 minutes Button sound Turn button sound On or Off. When On (default setting) is selected, a beep will sound once when operations are completed successfully, two times when focus has been locked, and three times when an error is detected, and welcome sound. Shutter sound Choose shutter sound from On (default setting) or Off. Downloaded From camera-usermanual.com Nikon Manuals
126 Basic Camera Setup: The Setup Menu Shooting, Playback and Setup Menus l Format Memory/m Format Card Use this option to format the internal memory or a memory card. Formatting the Internal Memory To format the internal memory, remove the memory card from the camera. The Format memory option appears in the setup menu. Formatting a Memory Card When the memory card is inserted in the camera, the Format card option appears in the setup menu. BFormatting Internal Memory and Memory Cards •Formatting the internal memory or memory cards permanently deletes all data. Be sure to transfer important pictures to a computer before formatting. •Formatting the internal memory or memory card will change the icon settings (A64) for the favorites folder back to the default settings (number icon). •Do not turn the camera off, disconnect the AC adapter, or open the battery-chamber/memory card slot cover during formatting. •The first time you insert the memory cards used in other devices into the COOLPIX S560, be sure to format them using this camera. Format memory All images will be deleted! OK? FormatNo All images will be deleted! OK? FormatNo Format card Downloaded From camera-usermanual.com Nikon Manuals