Smart Portrait Mode (Capturing Images of 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 of human faces.

On the shooting screen MA(shooting mode) button MFSmart portrait (A26–27)

1Frame a picture and wait for the subject to

smile without pressing the shutter-release button.

•When the camera detects a human face, a yellow

double border (focus area) is displayed around that

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

face. When focus is acquired on that face, the double

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border will turn green for a moment and focus is

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

locked.

 

 

 

 

 

 

•Up to three faces can be detected. When the camera detects more than one face, the double border is displayed around the face closest to the center of the frame, and single borders around the others.

Tap the face framed by a single border to change the focus area to that face.

•If the camera detects that the face framed by the double border is smiling, Smile timer (A53) is activated and the shutter is automatically released.

•Each time the shutter is released, the camera again initiates face detection and smile detection operations for continuous automatic shooting.

2End shooting.

•Any one of the following operations can be used to cancel smile detection and stop shooting.

-Turn the camera off.

-Set Smile timer to Off.

-Press the A button and select other shooting mode.

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