Nikon COOLPIXP500BK Selecting a Scene Mode to Take Pictures Features, Night landscape, Off

Shooting Suited to Scenes (Scene Mode)

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Selecting a Scene Mode to Take Pictures (Features)

•The mode dial can be used to select scenes when shooting (A44).

•See “Shooting in the Scene Selected by the Camera (Scene Auto Selector)” (A46) for more information on Scene auto selector scene mode.

•The X shown for each scene is the setting for the flash mode when the flash is raised (A36). nis the setting for the Self-timer (A39), pis the setting for focus mode (A40) and ois the setting for exposure compensation (A43).

j Night landscape Q

Use this mode to capture the ambience of night landscapes.

Press the dbutton to select Hand-heldor Tripod in Night

landscape.

•Hand-held(default setting): This enables you to shoot with the minimum of camera shake and noise even when holding the camera by hand.

-The Yicon is displayed on the shooting screen.

-When the jicon at the top left of the monitor lights in green, press the shutter-release button all the way to shoot a series of pictures, which will be combined into a single image and saved.

-Once the shutter-release button is pressed all the way, hold the camera steady without moving it until a still picture is displayed. After taking a picture, do not turn the camera off before the monitor switches to the shooting screen.

-The angle of view (image area) seen in the saved image will be narrower than that seen on the monitor at the time of shooting.

•Tripod: Select this mode when the camera is stabilized, such as with a tripod.

-The Zicon is displayed on the shooting screen.

-Vibration reduction (A193) is automatically set to Off regardless of the applied option in the setup menu (A185).

-Press the shutter-release button all the way to shoot a single picture at slow shutter speeds.

•Camera focuses at infinity. When the shutter-release button is pressed halfway, the focus area always lights in green. However, because the camera focuses at infinity, it may not be able to focus on nearby objects.

•The digital zoom is not available.

•AF-assist illuminator (A196) does not light.

X W n Off* p B o 0.0*

*Other settings can be selected.

Q: Noise reduction is performed for pictures shot in scene modes with Q, so they may take longer

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to record.