Nikon COOLPIX P500 User Manual page 63

_ Night p0rtrait
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.
Press the MENU button to select Hand-held or Tripod in Night
portrait.
• Hand-held: This enables you to shoot with the minimum of camera shake and noise even
when holding the camera by hand.
- The [_g_] icon is displayed on the shooting screen.
- When the [] icon at the top left of the monitor lights in green, press the shutter-release
button all the way to shoot a series of pictures, which will be combined into a single
image and saved.
- 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.
- The angle of view (image area) seen in the saved image will be narrower than that seen
on the monitor at the time of shooting.
- 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 @ icon is displayed on the shooting screen.
- Vibration reduction (_1 g3) is automatically set to Off regardless of the applied
option in the setup menu (1_)185).
- Press the shutter-release button all the way to shoot a single picture at slow shutter
speeds.
• Shoot pictures with the flash raised.
• The digital zoom is not available.
• The camera automatically detects and focuses on a face (see "Shooting with Face Priority"
((Z_)97) for more information).
- If the camera detects multiple faces, the camera focuses on the face closest to the
camera.
- After the Skin softening feature makes the subject's skin appear smoother (up to three
people), the camera records the image (_66).
- If no faces are recognized, the camera focuses on the subject at the center of the frame.
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1 Fill flash is used with red eye reduction,
2 Other settings can be selected.
(_: Noise reduction is performed for pictu res shot in scene modes with _, so they may take longer
to record,
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