Nikon COOLPIXP510BLK, COOLPIXP510RED manual Viewing Pictures Taken Using Pet Detection

Shooting Features

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Scene Mode (Shooting Suited to Scenes)

yMOPet portrait

Use this mode for shooting pictures of dogs or cats.

•Select Single or Continuous on the screen that is displayed when OPet portrait scene mode is selected.

-Single: One picture is captured at a time.

-Continuous (default setting): When the camera focuses on the detected face in Pet portrait auto release (default setting) mode, three pictures are shot

continuously (frame rate with continuous shooting: approximately three frames per second when image quality is set to Normal and image size is set to i4608×3456). If pet portrait auto release is not used, approximately five pictures can be shot one after the other at the maximum rate of about three frames per second while the shutter- release button is fully held down (when image quality is set to Normal and image size is set to i4608×3456).

•The camera detects and focuses on the face of a dog or cat. In the default setting, when the subject is in focus, the shutter is released automatically (Pet portrait auto release).

•Up to five pet faces are detected simultaneously. When the camera detects more than one face, the camera focuses on the face displayed the largest in the monitor.

•If a pet’s face is not detected, press the shutter-release button halfway to focus on the subject at the center of the frame.

•Press the multi selector J(n) to change the pet portrait auto release settings.

-Pet portrait auto release (default setting): When the camera focuses on the detected face, the shutter is released automatically. When Pet portrait auto release is set, the dicon is displayed on the shooting screen.

-OFF: Press the shutter-release button to release the shutter.

•In the following situations, Pet portrait auto release is automatically switched to OFF.

-When a continuous shooting series with pet portrait auto release is repeated five times

-When remaining capacity of the internal memory or memory card is low

To continue shooting with pet portrait auto release, press the multi selector J(n) to set again.

•The digital zoom is not available.

•Under some shooting conditions such as pet-to-camera distance, speed of moving pets, direction in which the pets are facing, and brightness of the faces, the camera may be unable to detect a dog or cat, or a border is displayed around something other than a dog or cat.

BViewing Pictures Taken Using Pet Detection

•During playback, the camera automatically rotates images according to the orientation of the pet's face detected at the time of shooting (except for pictures taken with continuous shooting).

•When zooming in on an image displayed in full-frame playback mode by rotating the zoom control toward g(i), the image is enlarged at the center of a pet's face detected during shooting (A35) (except for pictures taken with continuous shooting).