Nikon COOLPIX P310, Reference Manual

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Scene Mode (Shooting Suited to Scenes)
Sh
ooting Feat
ures
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O
Pet portrait
Use this mode for shooting pictures of dogs or cats.
• Select Single or Continuous on the screen that is
displayed when
O
Pet portrait scene mode is selected.
- Single : One picture is captured at a time.
- Continuous (default setting): When the camera focuses
on the detected face in Pet portrait auto release
(default setting) mode, three pictures are shot
continuously (frame rate with continuous shooting: approximately three frames per
second when image quality is set to
Normal and image size is set to
i
4608×3456 ).
If pet portrait auto release is not used, approximately five pictures can be shot one after
the other at the maximum rate of about three frames per second while the shutter-
release button is fully held down (when image quality is set to
Normal and image size
is set to
i
4608×3456 ).
• The camera detects and focuses on the face of a dog or cat. In the default setting, when
the subject is in focus, the shutter is released automatically (Pet portrait auto release).
• Up to five pet faces are detected simultaneously. When two or more faces are detected,
the camera focuses on the face closest to the camera in the frame.
• If a pet’s face is not detected, press the shutter-release button halfway to focus on the
subject at the center of the frame.
• Press the multi selector
J
(
n
) to change the pet portrait auto release settings.
- Pet portrait auto release (default setting): When the camera focuses on the
detected face, the shutter is released automatically. When Pet portrait auto release
is set, the
d
icon is displayed on the shooting screen.
- OFF : Press the shutter-release button to release the shutter.
• In the following situations, Pet portrait auto release is automatically switched to OFF .
- When a continuous shooting series with pet portrait auto release is repeated five times
- When remaining capacity of the internal memory or memory card is low
To continue shooting with pet portrait auto release, press the multi selector
J
(
n
) to set
again.
• The digital zoom is not available.
• Under some shooting conditions such as pet-to-camera distance, speed of moving pets,
direction in which the pets are facing, and brightness of the faces, the camera may be unable
to detect a dog or cat, or a border is displayed around something other than a dog or cat.
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Viewing Pictures Taken Using Pet Detection
• During playback, the camera automatically rotates images according to the orientation of the pet's
face detected at the time of shooting (except for pictures taken with continuous shooting).
• When zooming in on an image displayed in full-frame playback mode by rotating the zoom
control toward
g
(
i
), the image is enlarged at the center of a pet's face detected during shooting
(
A
31) (except for pictures taken with continuous shooting).