Optima Batteries P90 Using Smile Timer/Blink Proof, Press the shutter-release button fully, Modes

Automatic

Automatic Shooting of Smiling Faces

Using Smile Timer/Blink Proof

The camera detects a smiling face using face priority and releases the shutter automatically. This function can be used in the following shooting modes: A(auto) mode, Portrait and Night portrait (excluding blink proof) settings of Scene mode, and A, B, C, D, Eand

Fmodes.

1Press n(self-timer).

•The self-timer menu is displayed.

•Change any flash mode, exposure compensation, or shooting menu settings before pressing the nbutton.

2 Use the multi selector to choose a (smile timer) or y(blink proof) (A55), and press the kbutton.

• If a setting is not applied by pressing the kbutton within a few seconds, the selection will be cancelled.

Smile timer

Shooting of Smiling Faces

3Frame 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. The camera focuses on the face framed by the double border. The double border will turn green for a moment and focus will be locked.

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•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.

•Digital zoom is not available.

4Press the shutter-release button fully.

•The camera begins searching for smiling faces five seconds after the shutter-release button is fully pressed down. The time until the search starts will be displayed in the monitor and the double border will turn green.

•Press the shutter-release button before the camera starts searching for smiling faces to stop the timer.

•If the camera detects that the face framed by the double border is smiling, the shutter is automatically released.

•After the timer starts counting down, the face that is recognized by the camera and framed by the double border will be detected as a smiling face.

•When the shutter is released, automatic shooting, in which the camera detects a smiling face and releases the shutter automatically, will be performed repeatedly.

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