Nikon Coolpix 300 User Manual

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32 First Steps : Taking Your First PhotographA beep will sound three times, signaling that the camera’s electronicshutter has been released, and the READY lamp will blink while thecamera transfers the photograph to memory. When the camera has finishedrecording the image, the exposure count in the status bar of the touch-paneldisplay will go down by one.Note: After shutter has been released and the camera has finishedtransferring the photograph to memory, a flashing letter “M” will appearfor a few seconds at the top left corner of the main window. While thisletter is displayed, you can annotate the photograph you have just taken bytouching the main window with the stylus. This allows you to create amemo which can be displayed directly on the photograph (refer to“Creating Your First Memo” for further details on creating memos, or to“Annotating Photographs and Recordings” in the “Playback” chapter formore information on using memos to annotate photographs andrecordings). Alternatively, you can delete the photograph you have justtaken by touching the DELETE key while the letter “M” is displayed.This will bring up the delete dialog shown in the “Deleting Images andRecordings from Memory” (see “Playback,” below).When the READY lamp goes out, the camera is ready to record anotherpicture.Number ofexposures remaining[ 65]