Nikon CoolPix P500, Quick Start Manual

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More on
Sh
ooting
Shooting Suited to Scenes (Scene Mode)
When one of the following scenes is selected using the mode dial or the scene
menu, images are captured using settings that are optimized for the selected scene.
• For scene modes that use the flash, be sure to press the
m
(flash pop-up) button to
raise the flash before shooting.
• Choose a scene type from the scene menu and rotate the zoom control (
A
4) toward
g
(
j
) to view a description (help) of that scene. To return to the original screen, rotate
the zoom control toward
g
(
j
) again.
y
(Scene)
Press the
d
button to display the scene menu and choose one of the following
shooting scenes.
x
Scene auto selector (default setting)
(
A
46)
i
Dusk/dawn (
A
54)
b
Portrait (
A
51)
k
Close-up (
A
55)
c
Landscape (
A
51)
u
Food (
A
56)
d
Sports (
A
52)
l
Museum (
A
57)
f
Party/indoor (
A
52)
m
Fireworks show (
A
57)
Z
Beach (
A
53)
n
Black and white copy (
A
57)
z
Snow (
A
53)
p
Panorama (
A
58)
h
Sunset (
A
53)
O
Pet portrait (
A
59)
Snow
Scene menu
Scene auto se l ector
Portrait
Landscape
Sports
Party
/ indoor
Beach
j
Night landscape (
A
48)
e
Night portrait (
A
49)
R
Backlighting (
A
50)
Rotate the mode dial to
j
,
e
, or
R
and take pictures.
C
Image Quality and Image Size
If you press the
d
button in scene mode, you can set Image quality (
A
83) and Image size
(
A
84). Changes made to the image quality and image size settings apply to all shooting modes
(except for shooting mode
M
).