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Automatic Shooting of Smiling Faces
Automatic Shooting of Smiling Faces
Shooting in Smile Mode
The camera detects a smiling face using face priority and releases the shutter
automatically.
1
Display the shooting-mode
selection menu by pressing the A
button in shooting mode, use the
rotary multi selector to choose a,
and then press the k button.
2
Frame the picture.
• Point the camera at the subject.
• When the camera detects a face looking toward the
camera, the focus area containing the face will be
displayed with a yellow double border, and when focus
is locked the double border will turn green for a moment.
• Up to three faces can be detected. When more than one
face is detected, the face closest to the center of the frame is framed by a double
border and the others by single borders.
3
The shutter is automatically released.
• If the camera detects that the face framed by the double border is smiling, the shutter
is automatically released.
• When the camera detects a face, the self-timer lamp (A4) blinks. Immediately after
the shutter is released with detection of a smiling face, the self-timer lamp flickers.
• When the shutter is released, automatic shooting, with which the camera detects a
smiling face and releases the shutter automatically, will be performed repeatedly.
• At the default setting, blink proof is enabled (A49).
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Exit smile mode by pressing the A button.
• Switch to another shooting mode.
C Face Priority and Smiling Face Detection Features
When the camera is pointed at a face looking toward the camera in smile mode, the face is
automatically recognized and that smiling face will be detected.
• Under some shooting conditions, face priority will not take effect and smiling faces cannot be
detected.
• See “Shooting with Face Priority” (A101) for more information about face priority.
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