Shooting With Face Priority - Nikon Coolpix P300 User Manual

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.
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Frame the picture.
• When the camera detects a face, the focus area
containing the face is displayed with a double yellow
border.
• When the camera detects more than one face, depending upon the shooting mode,
the operation varies as follows.
Shooting mode
A, B, C, D
modes
(Face priority)
Scene auto selector,
Portrait or Night portrait
scene mode
a (Smile timer)
Shooting Options: Shooting Menu (A, B, C, D Modes)
Faces framed by a double
border
The face closest to the camera
* The other faces are framed by
a single border.
The face closest to the center
of the frame
* The other faces are framed by
a single border.
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Number of faces to be
recognized
Up to 12
Up to 3
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