Nikon S230 user manual Face Priority, Portrait

Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

Face Priority

The camera automatically detects and focuses on a face looking toward the camera.

The face-priority function is activated when Face priority (default setting) is selected for AF area mode (A 116), when shooting in Scene auto selector (A 37), Portrait (A 37), or Night portrait (A 38) scene mode, or when shooting in smile mode (A 50).

1Frame a picture.

When the camera recognizes a face looking toward the camera, that face will be framed by a yellow double border.

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Shooting, Playback and Setup Menus

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

Shooting mode	Faces framed by	The number of faces
	a double border	to be recognized
A (auto) mode
(Face priority)	The face closest to the camera
Scene mode: Scene auto	* The other faces are framed by	Up to 12
selector, Portrait, Night	a single border.
portrait
	The face closest to the center of
Smile mode	frame	Up to 3
	* The other faces are framed by
	a single border.

The camera focuses on the face framed by the double border. To select another face for focusing, tap a face framed by a single border. The border surrounding the selected face will change to a double border.

2 Press the shutter-release button halfway.

Focus will be on the face framed by the double border.
The double border will glow green once focus has been
locked.
When the camera is unable to focus, the double border
will blink. Press the shutter-release button halfway again
and focus.
Press the shutter-release button the rest of the way down	1/125 F3.1
to take the picture.

You don’t need to press the shutter-release button halfway in smile mode. If the camera

118detects the smiling face, the shutter is automatically released (A50).