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checkmark shows. Now go to and select DONE. If you forget to check Attach it won't attach, and if
you forget to hit DONE it will also forget everything you just did. Sorry, I don't write the firmware.
It's great having everything you shoot have your contact info embedded. It also allows you to
prove ownership in a third-world country when catching a thief with your camera. Help the cop go
through the menus and read your personal ID information.
This text is added in the file's EXIF data. It doesn't appear in the visible image. I insert my visible
© notices with Photoshop.
USB
This selects how the camera behaves when plugged into a computer via USB.
I leave it at mass storage, which means my D40 appears as an external hard drive between which
I can drag and drop images and folders in my Mac OSX Finder or Windows Explorer.
PTP is used if you want to control the D40 as an external device, for instance, via Nikon Camera
Control Pro for remote camera control. PTP makes the D40 look like a device instead of like a
drive.
Use whichever works best with your computer and workflow.
Folders
You can create, name and rename folders on your memory card. They are named with a 3-digit
number from 100 through 999.
Select Folder selects the folder into which new photos are written.
You could use this to record images into a previous folder. I never do this: if I want to get that
complicated I wait until I get to my computer where it's much easier to sort.
You might want to use this feature if you shot one event or subject, went on to a second and made
a new folder for it, and then returned to the previous subject.
New is used to create a new folder. Unlike the pro cameras like the D200, there is no trick by
which you can hold the ? button on power-on to create a new folder automatically.
Rename and Delete are self-explanatory.
File No. Sequence
This ensures your file numbers keep counting up. Set this ON.
If you leave it at default you'll start from DSC_0001 every time you reformat (page 35). Over time
you'll have hundreds of photos on your computer all called DSC_0001. It will drive you crazy if you
ever try to use two of them in the same document and it will be too late to do anything about it.
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