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.

Enter shooting mode MA(shooting mode) button MFSmart portrait mode M

kbutton

1 Frame the picture.

Raise the flash when using it (A 5).

Point the camera at a person’s face.

“Using Face Detection” (A 68)

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; A 65, 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 (A 65, E41) to Off.

-Press the Abutton and select a different shooting mode.

Shooting Features

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Nikon COOLPIXL820BLK, L820 Black, L820 Red Smart Portrait Mode Capturing Smiling Faces, Stop shooting, Turn the camera off