Nikon P520 - Manual (Page 57)

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Scene Mode (Shooting Suited to Scenes)
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Note on Selecting a Scene Mode Using Scene Auto Selector
Depending upon shooting conditions, the camera may not select the desired scene mode. Should
this occur, switch to A (auto) mode (
A26) or select the optimum scene mode for the subject
manually.
y M x Scene auto selector
When you frame a picture, the camera automatically selects the optimum scene for simpler
shooting.
• When the camera automatically selects a scene mode, the shooting mode icon changes
to that for the scene mode currently enabled.
• The camera automatically selects the focus area for autofocus in accordance with the
composition. The camera detects and focuses on faces ( A80).
• The digital zoom is not available.
y M b Portrait
• The camera detects and focuses on a face (
A80).
• The skin softening feature makes the subject's skin appear softer ( A46).
• If no faces are detected, the camera focuses on the subject at the center of the frame.
• The digital zoom is not available.
e Portrait (close-up picture of one to two persons)
b
Portrait (shooting a picture of three or more persons or shooting a composition
with a large background area)
f Landscape
h Night portrait (close-up picture of one to two persons)
c
Night portrait (shooting a picture of three or more persons or shooting a
composition with a large background area)
g
Night landscape
• The camera shoots images continuously and combines and saves them as one
image in the same way as when Hand-held in X (Night landscape) (A37) is
selected.
i Close-up
j Backlighting (shooting non-human subjects)
d Backlighting (shooting human subjects)
d Other shooting scenes