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Shooting Smiling Faces (Smart Portrait Mode)

More on

Sh
ooting

B

Notes on Smart Portrait Mode

Digital zoom is not available.
Under some shooting conditions, the camera may be unable to detect faces or smiles.
See “Notes on the Face Detection Function” (A 41) for more information.

B

Notes on Skin Softening Function

More time than usual may be required to save a picture when shooting with skin softening

function.

In some shooting conditions, facial skin tones may not be smoothed or parts other than face may

be modified though the camera detects a face. If the desired results are not produced, set

Skin

softening to Off and shoot again.

The skin softening level cannot be adjusted when Portrait or Night portrait is selected in the

scene mode.

Retouch effects such as the glamour retouch function’s skin softening effect can be applied to

pictures after they are taken (

A 121).

C

Self-timer Lamp

The self-timer lamp blinks slowly when the smile timer is enabled and the camera detects a face, and
it blinks quickly immediately after the shutter is released.

C

Releasing the Shutter Manually

Pictures can also be taken by pressing the shutter-release button. The camera focuses on the subject
at the center of the frame when faces are not detected.

C

Auto Off in Smile Timer Mode

When

Smile timer is set to On, the auto off function (A 158) is activated and the camera turns off

when either of the situations indicated below persists and no other operations are performed.

The camera does not detect any faces.
The camera detected a face, but cannot detect a smile.

D

More Information

See “Autofocus” (

A 31) for more information.