Nikon 775 - Manual (Page 80)

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How Do I Send Pictures to My Friends and Family?
Distr ibuting Photos by E-Mail and the Web
As the name indicates, digital cameras produce digital images. As digital data,
digital images can be readily transferred to a computer, where they can be
stored, viewed, sent to your acquaintances via e-mail, or saved to removable
media (for example , a floppy or Zip disk) for delivery to a photofinisher.
The key to transferring images to a computer is the Nikon View software
provided with your camera. This section describes how to take pictures for
electronic distribution and transfer them to your computer. More informa-
tion on using Nikon View can be found in “Reference: Connections” (
140).
Taking Photos for E-Mail and the Web
Your camera stores pictures in JPEG format, which can be viewed using a
wide variety of computer applications, including web browsers such as
Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer and e-mail software such as Eudora
and Outlook. This makes them ideal for distribution by e-mail or the web.
Note , however, that pictures destined for electronic distr ibution should be
small, both in terms of their physical dimensions (so that they will fit in the
window of a web-browser or e-mail software) and in terms of the amount
of data they contain (so that they don’t take too long to upload or down-
load over an Internet connection).
We recommend that you adjust camera settings as follows when taking
photos for electronic distribution: