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Honest Gaza
08-17-2006, 05:52 PM
Purchasing a new camera in the near future.
Still deciding between Panasonic FZ, Canon 350D and Nikon D50.

I always like to review the User Manuals prior to a purchase so I can see available features, how to activate them etc.

With Panasonic and Canon, I am able to download User Manuals in PDF format. However, for the Nikon camera, I have to have the serial number of the camera I already own......not sure why they would do this ?????

Does anyone have a link to a site that has this manual freely available for download ?
jcon
08-17-2006, 06:29 PM
Here you go. Scroll down and click on "Download the D50 Users Manual" in bold blue letters....

http://www.starbatteries.com/nid50dislrca.html
Honest Gaza
08-17-2006, 07:29 PM
You the Man Jason....thanks very much.
:)
Ray Schnoor
08-17-2006, 09:08 PM
The Nikon website offers 2 versions of the D50 manual. If you have a serial # of a D50, you can download a printable PDF file. If you do not have a serial # of a D50, you can download a non-printable PDF file. You can save it to your harddrive, but will be unable to print the file.

http://support.nikontech.com/cgi-bin/nikonusa.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=13644

Ray.
K1W1
08-18-2006, 02:54 AM
I can never understand why Nikon are so backward in this regard. It's hardly like Canon would download a user manual and use it to copy Nikon secrets. They would just go to a camera retailer and buy 50 cameras (with manuals) and pull them apart if they wanted to.
There is no logic in Nikon being this protective with simple things like manuals.
coldrain
08-18-2006, 03:27 AM
I can never understand why Nikon are so backward in this regard. It's hardly like Canon would download a user manual and use it to copy Nikon secrets. They would just go to a camera retailer and buy 50 cameras (with manuals) and pull them apart if they wanted to.
There is no logic in Nikon being this protective with simple things like manuals.
Yes... Canon would have the financial recourses to do that... but Pentax on the other hand...:eek: :D

**edit: geeeez I have a great way of spelling resources
K1W1
08-18-2006, 05:14 AM
Yes... Canon would have the financial recourses to do that... but Pentax on the other hand...:eek: :D

No you are wrong there. Pentax would just use Samsungs money.:D :D
FishFace
08-18-2006, 06:02 AM
Disabling printing is just a flag set in the PDF file. If you can find the right 3rd party acrobat reader, it will just ignore it. Mac OS X's Preview application does this, and I think kpdf and kghostview do, too, but I couldn't get them to print anyway - I think that this was something to do with the printing system on my machine, though.