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Shooting Features

Smart Portrait Mode (Capturing Smiling Faces)

When the camera detects a smiling face, you can take a picture automatically without
pressing the shutter-release button (smile timer). You can use the skin softening option to
smooth the skin tones in people’s faces.
1Frame the picture.
•Raise the flash when using it (A5).
•Point the camera at a person’s face.
•“Using Face Detection” (A68)
2Wait for the subject to smile. Do not press the shutter-release button.
•If the camera detects that the face framed by the double border is smiling, it automatically
releases the shutter (Smile timer; A65, E41).
•After the camera releases the shutter, it continues to detect faces and smiles, and releases
the shutter again if it detects a smiling face.
3Stop shooting.
•To cancel smile detection and stop shooting, perform any of the following operations:
-Turn the camera off.
-Set Smile timer (A65, E41) to Off.
-Press the A button and select a different shooting mode.
Enter shooting mode
M
A
(shooting mode) button
M
F
Smart portrait mode
M
k
button