Nikon COOLPIX P510 User Manual - Page 65

Shooting Features Scene Mode (Shooting Suited to Scenes) y M e Night portrait 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-held or Tripod on the screen that is displayed when e Night 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. - When shooting at the telephoto zoom position, the camera may not shoot pictures continuously even if a scene has a dark background. - 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 Z icon is displayed on the shooting screen. - Vibration reduction (A108) is automatically set to Off regardless of the applied option in the setup menu. - Press the shutter-release button all the way to shoot a single picture at slow shutter speeds. • The camera detects and focuses on a face (see "Using Face Detection" (A85) for more information). • After the skin softening feature makes facial skin tones softer, the camera records the image (A54). • If no faces are detected, the camera focuses on the subject at the center of the frame. • Shoot pictures with the flash raised. • The digital zoom is not available. 47