Nikon COOLPIXSP500BLK, COOLPIXP500BK user manual Night portrait, Off2

Shooting Suited to Scenes (Scene Mode)

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Use this mode for portraits taken at sunset or at night. Flash is used to illuminate the subject while maintaining the mood of the background.

Press the dbutton to select Hand-held or Tripod in Night portrait.

•Hand-held: 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 eicon 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.

-If the subject moves while the camera is shooting continuously, the image may be distorted, overlapped, or blurred.

•Tripod (default setting): 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.

•Shoot pictures with the flash raised.

•The digital zoom is not available.

•The camera automatically detects and focuses on a face (see “Shooting with Face Priority” (A97) for more information).

-If the camera detects multiple faces, the camera focuses on the face closest to the camera.

-After the Skin softening feature makes the subject’s skin appear smoother (up to three people), the camera records the image (A66).

-If no faces are recognized, the camera focuses on the subject at the center of the frame.

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1Fill flash is used with red-eye reduction.

2 Other settings can be selected.

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

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