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Shooting Features
Smart Portrait Mode (Capturing Images of Smiling Faces)
When the camera detects a smiling face, you can take an image automatically without
pressing the shutter-release button (smile timer). In addition, the skin softening function
smoothes the skin tones of human faces.
1 Frame the picture.
• Point the camera at a human face. See “Face Detection” (A68) for more information.
2 Without pressing the shutter-release button, wait for the subject to
smile.
• If the camera detects that the face framed by the double border is smiling, the shutter is
automatically released. See “Smile timer” (A64) for more information.
• After the camera releases the shutter, it will continue to detect faces and smiles, and will
release the shutter again if it detects a smiling face.
3 Stop shooting.
• To stop automatic shooting of smiling faces, perform the followings.
- Turn the camera off.
-Set Smile timer (A64) to Off.
- Press the A button and select other shooting mode.
B Notes About Smart Portrait Mode
• Digital zoom is not available.
• Under some shooting conditions, the camera may be unable to detect faces or smiles.
• See “Notes About Face Detection Function” (A69) for more information.
Enter shooting mode M A (shooting mode) button M F Smart portrait M k button