Nikon COOLPIXP300BK user manual Hand-held

Selecting Scenes for Shooting (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.

Select Hand-heldor Tripod on the screen that is displayed when eNight portrait scene mode is selected.

•Hand-held:

-The Y icon is displayed on the shooting screen.

-For a scene with a dark background, when the shutter-release button is pressed all the way, pictures are shot continuously. The camera combines these pictures to save a single picture.

-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.

-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 (A150) is automatically set to Off regardless of the applied option in the setup menu (A141).

-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” (A85) 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 (A46).

-If no faces are detected, 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.

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