Nikon COOLPIXS100RED, COOLPIXS100PURPLE, COOLPIXS100GOLD, COOLPIXS100BLK manual BWide

Scene Mode (Shooting Suited to the Scene)

pPanorama

Use for taking panoramas.

Tap the dtab (A11) to select p Panorama and then select from VEasy panorama or UPanorama assist.

•Easy panorama (default setting): Allows you to take a panorama picture viewable on the camera simply by moving the camera in the desired direction.

-Press the shutter-release button all the way down, remove your finger from the button, and then slowly pan the camera across the scene. Shooting automatically ends when the camera captures the specified shooting range.

-The camera focuses at the center of the frame when shooting starts.

-The zoom position is fixed at wide-angle.

-Tap the dtab (A11) to select the shooting range from CNormal (180°) or

BWide (360°).

-If you tap R when a panorama taken using easy panorama is displayed in full-frame playback mode, the panorama is displayed so that the short edge of the panorama fits on the monitor, and the image scrolls automatically.

-See “Using Easy Panorama (Shooting and Playback)” (E3) for more information.

•Panorama assist: Takes a series of pictures that you can join together into a panorama on a computer.

-Tap A, B, C, or D to select the direction in which pictures will be joined in the completed panorama.

-After taking the first picture using the shutter-release button or touch shutter, take the

necessary shots while checking how each picture will connect to the next. To finish shooting, tap H.

-The camera focuses at the center of the frame for the first shot. The focus area can be changed using the touch shutter (A38).

Focus, exposure, and white balance are fixed at the values determined with the first picture in each series.

-Transfer the pictures to a computer and use Panorama Maker 5 (E7) to join them into a single panorama.

-See “Using Panorama Assist” (E6) for more information.

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