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7-8 Reference — Camera
seconds while image data are moved from memory in the camera system
to the PCMCIA card. When the frame counter reappears, the camera is
ready for shooting.
The number displayed in the Nikon N90s frame counter may be higher
than the maximum number of images that can be stored on the PCMCIA
card, since images stored on the PCMCIA card retain their numbers when
images with lower numbers are deleted.
The Nikon N90s frame counter is displayed with each image in the
software driver image window.
When you delete images (with the DELETE button on the camera back or
with a software driver), existing images on the PCMCIA card are not
renumbered. Consider the figure below. Suppose that you had an empty
PCMCIA card, took five pictures, and then deleted image 5 with the
DELETE button and images 2 and 3 with the software driver. Image 4 is
not renumbered. As new pictures are stored to the PCMCIA card, they are
given the next higher number that has not been previously used for an
image. In the figure below, new images will be numbered 6, 7, …
Frame number
1234567
The highest frame number is 99. It is possible that you will reach this
frame number by a continuous process of making images, deleting some,
and then making additional images. When you reach frame number 99,