Nikon Coolpix S9 Users Manual

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Basic Camera Setup: The Setup Menu
Shooting, Playback, and Setup Menus
kTime Zones (c16)
The camera supports the time zones listed below. Increments of less than one hour are not
supported; when travelling to or from destinations at half- or quarter-hour increments from
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), such as Afghanistan, Central Australia, India, Iran, Nepal, or
Newfoundland, set the camera clock to local time (c16, 97).
GMT +/–LocationGMT +/–Location
–11 Midway, Samoa +1 Madrid, Paris, Berlin
–10 Hawaii, Tahiti +2 Athens, Helsinki
–9 Alaska, Anchorage +3 Moscow, 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+6 Colombo, Dhaka
–5EST (EDT): New York, 
Toronto, Lima+7 Bangkok, Jakarta
–4 Caracas, Manaus +8Beijing, Hong Kong, 
Singapore
–3 Buenos Aires, São 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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Shooting, Playback, and Setup Menus
Z Monitor Settings
Choose whether or not to display information in
the monitor, and set the monitor brightness. The
following options are available:
Photo Info
The following display options are available:
kPhoto Info
See “The Monitor” (c6) for information on indicators in the monitor.
Photo info
Choose information displayed in monitor (see 
below).
Brightness (default: 3)
Choose from five settings for monitor brightness.
Show infoDisplays the current settings or 
operation guide on the monitor 
when taking or viewing pictures.
Auto info
(default)Displays the current settings or 
operation guide on the monitor 
for just five seconds.
Hide infoThe operation guide or current 
settings are not displayed on the 
monitor.
Framing gridIn L mode, a framing grid is dis-
played to help frame pictures; 
other current settings or opera-
tion guide is displayed for five 
seconds as in [Auto info] above.
Monitor settings
Exit Photo info
Brightness 3
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Shooting, Playback, and Setup Menus
f Date Imprint
Date and time of recording can be imprinted on
pictures for printing this information from printers
that are not DPOF-compatible (c117).
At settings other than [Off], the icon for the current setting is displayed in the
monitor (c6).
jDate Imprint
• Imprinted dates form a permanent part of image data and cannot be deleted. Dates
imprinted at an image-mode setting 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 (c16, 97).
kDate imprint and print set
When using DPOF-compatible devices, shooting date or photo information will be printed if
[Date] or [Info] is selected in the print set menu (c75). See “Differences Between Print Set
and Date Imprint” (c75) for more information on the difference between [Date imprint] and
[Print set].
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 (see following page).
fDate imprint
ExitOff
Date
Date and time
Date counter
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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 J, and enter a 
date (c16). To select a date, choose an option 
and press d.
Display options
Choose [Number of days], [Years and days], or 
[Yrs, mnths, days] and press d.
fDate counter
Exit
0155
10.10.2006
Number of days
Press d to display the 
stored dates option.
Press d to display the 
display option.
fStored dates
Exit
10.10.2006
--.--.----12.10.2006
Display options
Number of days
Years and days
Yrs, mnths, days
Exit
02/  08.10.200602/  08.10.200602/  08.10.200602/  12.10.200602/  12.10.200602/  12.10.2006
Two days remaining Two days elapsed
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Shooting, Playback, and Setup Menus
u AF Assist
If [Auto] is selected, AF-assist illumination will be
used to assist the focus operation when the subject
is poorly lit. To disable this function, choose [Off].
Note that for some modes, AF-assist illumination
turns off automatically (c33-37, c39-42). When
set to [Off], the camera may be unable to focus if
lighting is poor.
h Sound Settings
Adjust the following sound settings.
Button sound (default: On)
When [ON] is selected, beep will sound once when operations are completed 
successfully, three times when error is detected.
Shutter sound (default: Normal)
Choose volume of shutter sound from [Loud], [Normal], and [Off].
Start-up sound (default: Normal)
Choose volume of sound that plays when camera is turned on to [Loud], [Nor-
mal], or [Off].
AF assist
ExitAuto
Off
Button sound
Shutter sound
Start-up soundSound settings
Exit
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h Blur Warning
Choose whether or not to display the blur warning.
Note that the warning may not always be displayed
(c120). At default setting, blur warning is [On].
i Auto Off
Choose the time allowed to elapse before the cam-
era enters standby mode to save power (c15).
The time options are 30 seconds (default setting),
one minute, five minutes, and 30 minutes.
• If no operations are performed for fifteen sec-
onds when the auto off option is set to [30s], the
monitor turns off and the power on lamp blinks. If no operations are per-
formed for another fifteen seconds, the camera enters standby mode.
jAuto Off
Regardless of the option selected, the monitor will remain on for a minimum of three minutes
when menus are displayed, and for thirty minutes during a slide show.
Blur warning
On
Off
Exit
Auto off
Exit30s
1m
5m
30m
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Shooting, Playback, and Setup Menus
M Format Memory/O Format Card
If no memory card is inserted, this option is labeled
[Format memory] and formats internal memory.
Remove the memory card from the camera to for-
mat the internal memory. If a memory card is
inserted, the option is labeled [Format card] and
formats the memory card.
When a memory card is inserted, two format
options are available:
j Formatting 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.
• The first time you insert the memory cards used in other devices into the COOLPIX S9, for-
mat them with [Format]. Repeated recording and deleting of pictures without regular for-
matting reduces memory card performance. Regular formatting of memory cards is
recommended to maintain maximum performance.
• Do not turn the camera off or remove the battery or memory card during formatting.
• [Format] is not available when the battery is low.
Quick format
Formats only portions of the memory card containing data.
Format
Formats the entire memory card including portions with no recorded data.
Format takes longer than Quick format.
Format memory
WARNING!
All images will be deleted!
ExitFormatNo
Format card
Exit Quick format
Format
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Shooting, Playback, and Setup Menus
j Language
Choose one of 20 languages for display of camera
menus and messages.
k Interface
Adjust settings for connection to a computer or
video device.
CzechPolish
DanishPortuguese
GermanRussian
(default)Finnish
SpanishSwedish
FrenchSimplified Chinese
IndonesianTraditional Chinese
ItalianJapanese
DutchKorean
NorwegianThai
USB
Select [Mass storage] or [PTP] for connection to computer (c65) or printer 
(c69).
Video mode
Choose from [NTSC] and [PAL] (c63).
Auto transfer (default)
Choose [On] to mark all new pictures for transfer to computer (c67).
Interface
Exit USB
Video mode
Auto transfer
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Shooting, Playback, and Setup Menus
n Reset All
This option restores the following settings to their
default values:
Pop-up menu
One-touch portrait menu
Setup menu
Scene mode
Flash mode (c28)Auto
Self-timer (c30)Off
Macro close-up (c31)Off
Image mode (c45)Normal(2816)
Menus (c95)Text
Welcome screen (c96)Disable welcome
Photo info (c100)Auto info
Brightness (c100)3
Date imprint (c101)Off
AF assist (c103)Auto
Button sound (c103)On
Shutter sound (c103)Normal
Start-up sound (c103)Normal
Blur warning (c104)On
Auto off (c104)30s
Auto transfer (c106)On
Scene mode (c32)Portrait
Portrait assist (c34)B
Landscape assist (c35)E
Sports assist (c36)P
Night portrait assist (c37)D
Image mode (c45)Normal(2816)
Reset all
Reset all settings to default
values
ExitResetNo
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Shooting, Playback, and Setup Menus
Shooting menu
Movie menu
Others
• Choosing [Reset all] also clears the current file number (c110) from the memory. Num-
bering will continue from the lowest number available. To reset file numbering to “0001,”
delete all pictures (c91) before selecting [Reset all].
• Settings for [Date] (c97), [Date counter] (c102), [Language] (c106), [USB] (c106),
and [Video mode] (c106) will remain unaffected even if [Reset all] is performed.
B Firmware Version
View the current camera firmware version. 
Image mode (c77)Normal(2816)
White balance (c79)Auto
Exposure compensation (c81)0
Continuous (c82)Single
Interval timer30 s
BSS (c84)Off
Exposure BSSHighlight BSS
SensitivityAuto
Color options (c86)Standard color
Movie options (c54)Small size 320
Set interval time10 s
Playback speed5 fps
Auto-focus mode (c57)Single AF
Paper size (c73)Default
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COOLPIX S9 Ver. X.X
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