Nikon 900 - Manual (Page 68)

- 68 - Connections: Reading Memory Cards with a Computer
Reading Memory Cards with a Computer
Photographs stored on the COOLPIX 900’s flash-memory card
can be read by any PC or Macintosh computer equipped with a
PCMCIA Type II or Type III PC card slot (check your computer’s
documentation to determine whether it has the appropriate
kind of card slot). The card can also be read using a Compact
Flash card-reader. Images recorded on the card can be copied
to the computer’s hard disk for long-term storage or viewed
directly using Nikon View 900 or any other software capable of
reading JPEG images.
Before the flash memory card can inserted in the computer’s
PC card drive, it must be placed in a PC-card adapter (available
separately from Nikon) . Turn the selector dial on the camera
to OFF and remove the memory card as described in “First
Steps: Inserting and Removing Memory Cards.” Insert the card
into the adapter as shown below.
Insert the adapter into the computer’s PC-card slot as described
in the computer’s instruction manual (on computers running
Windows 3.1, it may be necessary to install an ATA RAM card
driver before the computer will recognize the card). Once the
card is in place, it will function as would any other drive. Photo-
graphs are stored as JPEG files under the filenames used when
the camera is in playback mode (see “Playback,” above) and
may be handled as you would other files. If Nikon View 900 has
been installed, the photographs on the card can be browsed in
the same fashion as when the camera is connected directly to a
computer.
Note: The COOLPIX 900 can recognize and play back only
images that are created by the camera itself. It cannot read JPEG
files created on a computer or by another camera. While it is
possible to write files from the computer to the flash memory card,
the camera will not recognize them. It may also not recognize files
it has itself recorded if the directory (folder) or filenames have
been changed using a computer.