Nikon S9300 Manuel D’Utilisation

Focusing on the Subject

Sh
ooting Feat

ures

In the following shooting modes, the camera uses face 
detection to automatically focus on human faces. If the 
camera detects more than one face, a double border is 
displayed around the face that the camera will focus 
on, and single borders are displayed around the other 
faces.

• When using Face priority, if you press the shutter-release button halfway while no faces are 

detected or while framing a shot with no faces in it, the camera automatically selects the focus 
areas (up to nine) that contain the subject closest to the camera.

• When 

x 

(Scene auto selector)

,

 is selected, the focus area changes depending on which scene the 

camera selects.

• If no faces are detected when the shutter-release button is pressed halfway in Portrait or Night 

portrait scene mode, or smart portrait mode, the camera will focus on the subject at the center of 
the frame.

B

• The camera’s ability to detect faces depends on a variety of factors, including whether or not the 

subject is facing the camera. Additionally, the camera may be unable to detect faces in the 
following situations:
- When faces are partially hidden by sunglasses or otherwise obstructed

- When faces take up too much or too little of the frame

• When the frame includes more than one face, the faces detected by the camera and the face on 

which the camera focuses depend upon a variety of factors, including the direction in which the 
subject is facing.

• In some rare cases, such as those described in “Autofocus” (

29), the subject may not be in focus 

even though the double border turns green. If the camera does not focus, try  “Focus Lock” (

A76).

C

• During playback, the camera automatically rotates images according to the orientation of the 

faces that were detected at the time of shooting (except for pictures taken using continuous 
shooting mode (

A53)).

• 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 the face that was detected during 

shooting (

 (except for pictures taken using continuous shooting mode (

Shooting mode

Number of faces that 

can be detected

Focus area (double border)

Face priority is selected for AF 
area mode (

A37) in A (auto) 

mode or continuous shooting
mode

Up to 12 The face closest to the camera

x (Scene auto selector), 
Portrait, Night portrait scene 
mode (

F Smart portrait mode (A50)

Up to 3

The face closest to the center of 
the frame

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