65Shooting Suited to Scenes (Scene Mode)More on Shooting1 The flash fires using red-eye reduction.2 Other settings can be selected.S Night portraitUse this mode for portraits of a human subject shot in front of background lighting at night.Flash is used to illuminate the subject while maintaining the mood of the background.Press the d button to set Night portrait to Hand-held or Tripod.• Hand-held: Select this option to produce shots with reduced blurring and noise evenwhen the camera is hand-held.- The Y icon is displayed in the shooting screen.- When the e icon at the top left of the monitor lights in green, press the shutter-release button all the way to capture a series of images which will be combined into asingle image and saved.- Once the shutter-release button is pressed all the way, hold the camera steady withoutmoving it until a still image is displayed. After taking a picture, do not turn the cameraoff before the monitor switches to the shooting screen.- The angle of view (i.e., the area visible in the frame) seen in the saved image will benarrower than that seen in the monitor at the time of shooting.- If the subject moves while the camera is shooting continuously, the image may bedistorted, overlapped, or blurred.• Tripod (default setting): Select this option when using a tripod or other means tostabilize the camera during shooting.- The Z icon is displayed in the shooting screen.- Vibration reduction (A 175) is automatically set to Off regardless of the setting inthe setup menu (A 167).- One image is captured at a slow shutter speed when the shutter-release button ispressed all the way.• Raise the flash before taking pictures.• Digital zoom is not available.• When the camera detects a human face, it focuses on that face (see “Face Detection”(A 56) for more information).- If more than one face is detected, focus will be on the face closest to the camera.- The camera softens skin tones (in up to three faces) by applying the skin softeningfunction before saving images (A 67).- If no faces are detected, the camera focuses on the subject at the center of the frame.m V1 n Off 2 p Off o 0.02
