Nikon L820 - Manual (Page 59)

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e Night portrait
• The flash always fires. Raise the flash before shooting.
• After you select e Night portrait, select Y Hand-held or Z Tripod on the next screen.
• Y Hand-held (default setting):
- When e in the upper left of the monitor lights in green, press the shutter-release button all
the way to capture a series of images that will be combined and saved as a single image.
- Once the shutter-release button is pressed all the way, hold the camera still until a still image
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.
• Z Tripod: Select this option when using a tripod or other means to stabilize the camera during
shooting.
- Vibration reduction is not used even if Vibration reduction (
A 96) in the setup menu is
set to On.
- One image is captured at a slow shutter speed when the shutter-release button is pressed all
the way.
• When the camera detects a human face, it focuses on that face (A 68).
• The skin softening feature makes the skin tones in people’s faces appear smoother (A 51).
• If no faces are detected, the camera focuses on the subject in the center of the frame.
• Digital zoom cannot be used.
f Party/indoor
• The camera focuses on the area in the center of the frame.
• As images are easily affected by camera shake, hold the camera steadily. Set Vibration
reduction to Off in the setup menu ( A 96) when shooting using a tripod to stabilize the
camera.
Z Beach
• The camera focuses on the area in the center of the frame.
z Snow
• The camera focuses on the area in the center of the frame.