Nikon P520 Red User Guide

Scene Mode (Shooting Suited to Scenes)

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ing Features

C

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 (

• 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 (

• 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