Nikon COOLPIX-S8100 - Manual (Page 65)

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Changing A (Auto) Mode Settings (Shooting Menu)
More on
Sh
ooting
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Press the shutter-release button halfway.
The camera focuses on the face framed by the double
border. The double border turns green and focus is
locked.
When the camera is unable to focus, the double border
will blink. Press the shutter-release button halfway again
to focus.
Press the shutter-release button the rest of the way down to take a picture.
When the shutter-release button is pressed all the way when using smile timer, smile
detection begins, and the camera releases the shutter automatically when it detects a
smiling face (
A 34).
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B
Notes on Face Detection
• If the camera is unable to detect any faces when the shutter-release button is pressed halfway
with
AF area mode set to Face priority, the AF area mode setting automatically switches to Auto.
• If no faces are detected when the shutter-release button is pressed halfway in the
Portrait and e
(night portrait) scene modes, the camera will focus on the subject at the center of the frame.
• The camera’s ability to detect faces depends on a variety of factors, including whether or not the
subject is facing the camera. The camera may be unable to detect faces in the following situations:
- When faces are partially hidden by sunglasses or otherwise obstructed
- When faces take up too much or too little of the frame
• When the frame includes more than one face, the faces detected by the camera and the face on
which the camera focuses depend upon a variety of factors, including the direction in which the
faces are looking.
• When using autofocus and shooting subjects that are difficult to focus on ( A 27), the subject
may not be in focus even though the double border is green. If the subject is not in focus, change
AF area mode to
Manual or Center in A (auto) mode, and try focus lock shooting (A 51) by
focusing on another subject that is the same distance from the camera.
• Images captured using face detection will be rotated and displayed automatically according to
the orientation of the faces detected, in full-frame and thumbnail playback modes (excluding
images captured using continuous shooting mode (
A 73)).