Nikon COOLPIX 5000 Instruction Manual - Page 151

Camera Setup Organizing Your Photographs: The Folders Menu By default, photographs are stored on the memory card in a folder labeled NIKON. To make it easier to locate photographs during playback, you can create additional folders and organize photographs by theme. The Folders sub-menu is used to create, rename, and delete folders, and to select the folder in which subsequent photographs and movies will be stored, or from which images will be played back. Creating, Renaming, and Deleting Folders: The Options Menu The Options sub-menu in the Folders menu can be used to create, rename, or delete folders. Design Rule for Camera File Systems The camera file system conforms to the Design Rule for Camera File Systems (DCF). Under this system, folder names consist of a three-digit folder number followed by the folder name (e.g., "100NIKON"). Each folder can hold a maximum of two hundred images (it may hold less, depending on the size of the memory card and other factors). Should a folder fill up, another folder will automatically be created with the same name but a different folder number (e.g., "101NIKON"). For most purposes, the folder number can be ignored- when viewed from the camera, folders with the same name but different folder numbers are the same folder. For example, the camera shows the folders "100NIKON" and "101NIKON" as the single folder "NIKON" with no folder number. When the memory card is viewed on a computer, however, folders with the same name but different folder numbers will be treated as separate folders. 137