Taking a Self-Portrait: Using the Self-Timer

When the self-timer is on, pictures are taken ten or three seconds after the shutter-release button is pressed. This can be used to allow you to appear in your own pictures or to prevent close-up or low-light shots from being blurred by the camera movement that occurs when the shutter-release but- ton is pressed. When using the self-timer, you should either mount the cam- era on a tripod (recommended) or rest it on a flat, level surface.

Display self-timer menu.

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Exit menu. Self-timer icon is displayed in

Frame picture and press shutter-release

monitor (to exit without setting the self-

button halfway to set focus and expo-

timer, wait two seconds without pressing

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Start timer. Press once for delay of about

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ten seconds, twice for delay of about

 

 

 

 

 

three seconds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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number of seconds remaining until

 

 

 

 

 

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COOLPIX 5200, 13311 specifications

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