Optima Batteries P90 manual Using Smile Timer/Blink Proof

One or more subjects may have closed their eyes.

Using Smile Timer/Blink Proof

5Press the shutter-release button when the required pictures have been taken.

•Automatic shooting will end.

•Shooting will also end in the situations below.

-When nine pictures have been taken

-When more than five minutes has passed since pressing the shutter-release button in step 4 and no smiling faces have been detected

Notes on Blink Proof

Choose the y (blink proof ) icon in step 2 of the previous page to use the blink proof function together with smile timer.

Once the camera starts searching for smiling faces in step 4, whenever smiling faces are detected, the camera takes two pictures and chooses an image in which the subjects’ eyes are open.

• The message on the right will be displayed for a few seconds when the camera detects someone blinking

in the picture taken.

• y (blink proof ) cannot be chosen in Night portrait mode.

CFace Priority and Smiling Face Detection Features

When the camera is pointed at a face looking toward the camera in asmile timer/yblink proof, the face is automatically recognized and that smiling face will be detected.

•Under some shooting conditions, Face priority will not take effect and smiling faces cannot be detected.

•See “Shooting with Face Priority” (A123) for more information about Face Priority.

COperation of the Self-Timer Lamp for Smile Timer/Blink Proof

•When the shutter-release button is pressed in step 4, the self-timer lamp will blink. The lamp stops blinking one second before the camera begins searching for smiling faces.

•When the camera has detected peoples' faces and is waiting for a smiling face, the self-timer lamp blinks.

•Immediately after the shutter is released with detection of a smiling face, the self-timer lamp flickers.

CFunctions Restricted in Smile Timer/Blink Proof Mode

•The focus mode setting will be changed to A(autofocus). If the setting is changed to any setting other than A (autofocus), a (smile timer) or y (blink proof ) will be cancelled.

•Flash cannot be used for y (blink proof ).

•For shooting modes A, B, C, D, Eand F, blink proof cannot be used if B&W + color has been enabled for the Black-and-whiteoption of Optimize image (A111).

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Automatic Shooting of Smiling Faces

See “Autofocus” (A29) for more information. 55