Nikon COOLPIXP300BK user manual Shooting with Face Priority, Face priority

Shooting Options: Shooting Menu (A, B, C, DModes)

Shooting with Face Priority

The camera automatically detects and focuses on a human face. The face detection function operates in the following situations.

•When Face priority is selected for AF area mode (A83)

•When Scene auto selector (A42), Portrait (A46) or Night portrait (A49) is selected in scene mode

•When a(Smile timer) is selected (A36)

* See “Focusing on Moving Subjects for Shooting (Subject Tracking/Face Priority Tracking)” (A87) for more information on face priority tracking.

1Frame the picture.

• When the camera detects a face, the focus area containing the face is displayed with a double yellow border.

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•When the camera detects more than one face, depending upon the shooting mode, the operation varies as follows.

Shooting mode	Faces framed by a double	Number of faces to be
	border	recognized

A, B, C, D modes
(Face priority)	The face closest to the camera
	* The other faces are framed by Up to 12
Scene auto selector,
	a single border.
Portrait or Night portrait
scene mode
	The face closest to the center
a(Smile timer)	of the frame	Up to 3
	* The other faces are framed by
	a single border.

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