Nikon P300 Taking Pictures of Smiling Faces Smile Timer, Frame the picture, Shooting ends

Taking Pictures of Smiling Faces (Smile Timer)

Basic Photography and Playback:

The camera detects smiling faces using face detection and releases the shutter automatically.

This can be used when the shooting mode (A40) is set to A (auto) mode, the Portrait or Night portrait scene mode, or A, B, Cor Dmode.

1 Press the rotary multi selector n(self-timer).

•The self-timer menu is displayed.

•Adjust settings for flash mode, creative slider, exposure compensation, or items in the shooting menu before pressing n.

2Use the rotary multi selector to choose

a(Smile timer), and press the kbutton.

• If the kbutton is not pressed within a few seconds, the selection will be canceled.

Smile timer

A (Auto) Mode

3Frame the picture.

•Point the camera at the subject.

•When the camera detects a face, the focus area containing the face is displayed with a double border. When the camera focuses on the face, the double border lights in green for a moment, and the focus is locked.

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•Up to three faces can be detected. When more than one face is detected, the face closest to the center of the frame is framed by a double border and the others by single borders.

4The shutter is automatically released.

•When the camera detects a smiling face of the subject framed by the double border, the shutter is released automatically.

•Each time the shutter is released, automatic shooting using face detection and smiling face detection is repeated.

5Shooting ends.

•To stop automatic shooting of smiling faces, either turn off the camera or return to step 2 and select OFF.

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