Nikon 25243 Reference Manual - Page 3

Overview • simple operation featuring one-touch toolbars and menus Welcome to Nikon View DX for Windows (below, Nikon View), a browser program for the Nikon D1 digital camera. The Nikon View camera driver and browser allow rapid, easy access to camera image files when the camera is connected to a computer. With Nikon View, the camera functions as one of your computer's drives, making it possible to apply standard Windows operations to the image files in the camera's memory. Once you have installed Nikon View and mastered its simple operations, you'll be able to distribute your digital photographs by disk or electronic mail, or include them in your home page and other documents you create for business or personal use. Nikon View's principal features are listed below. • a camera driver for the Nikon D1 digital camera, which allows you to connect your camera to a computer and access its memory in much the same way as you would an ordinary disk drive • images can be opened in any application that supports JPEG or TIFF for retouching or to be saved in another format, allowing you to use images as wallpaper for your desktop or distribute them by electronic mail using other Windows applications • if you have a compact flash-memory reader or a PCMCIA card slot and card adapter, the digital camera's compact flash-memory cards can be browsed even when not inserted in the camera • files containing raw image data from the CCD in Nikon Electronic Image Format (NEF) are displayed as thumbnail images; NEF files can be opened for editing in Nikon Capture (sold separately) simply by double-clicking on the thumbnails • a browser function that makes it possible to preview at a glance all the images stored in your camera's memory, and to select items for editing, deletion, or transfer to disk • support for OLE 2.0 Drag-and-Drop, making it easy to copy images to disk, open them in other applications, or insert them in documents Overview - 3 -