Changing A (Auto) Mode Settings (Shooting Menu)

Face Detection

When the camera is pointed at a human face, face detection, which the camera automatically detects that face and focus on it, starts. The face detection function is activated in the following situations.

•AF area mode (A 45) is set to Face priority

•In Scene auto selector (A 52), Portrait (A 54), or Night portrait (A 55) scene mode

•In smart portrait mode (A 64)

*For information about face detection when using subject tracking mode, see “Focusing on a Moving Subject (Subject Tracking Mode)” (A 67).

1 Frame a picture.

When the camera detects a face, that face is framed by a yellow double border.

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More on Shooting

When the camera detects more than one face, operation varies as follows depending upon the shooting mode.

Shooting mode

Face framed by double border

Number of faces

that can be detected

 

 

A(auto) mode

 

 

(Face priority)

The face closest to the camera

 

Scene auto selector,

Up to 12

• Other faces framed by single border.

Portrait, or Night

 

 

portrait scene mode

 

 

Smart portrait mode

The face closest to the center of the

 

frame

Up to 3

 

• Other faces framed by single border.

 

2 Press the shutter-release button halfway.

The camera focuses on the face framed by the double border. The double border turns green and focus is locked.

When the camera is unable to focus, the double border will blink. Press the shutter-release button halfway again to focus.

Press the shutter-release button the rest of the way down to take a picture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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If the camera detects that the face framed by the double border is smiling in smart portrait mode, the Smile timer (A66) is activated and the shutter is automatically

released without the shutter-release button having been pressed.

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Coolpix Digital Camera, S5100 specifications

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