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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 cre-
ate, 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.