Taking Portrait (Smile Face) Shots Automatically; Using The Smile Mode - Nikon COOLPIX L20 User Manual

Taking Portrait (Smile Face) Shots Automatically

Using the Smile Mode

The camera detects a smiling face to shoot the face automatically.
1
Press the shooting mode button in
shooting mode to display the
shooting-mode selection menu
and use the multi selector H or I
to choose a and press k.
2
Frame the picture.
• Point the camera at the subject.
• If the camera recognizes a person's face (facing front),
the face will be framed by a double yellow border in
the focus area, and when the face comes into focus,
the double border will instantly turn green and the
focus will be locked.
• When the faces of multiple people are recognized, the face nearest the center of the
screen will be framed by a double border in the focus area and the other faces will be
framed by a single border. Up to three faces will be recognized.
3
The shutter is automatically released.
• If the camera detects the smiling face of the person framed by a double border, the
shutter is automatically released.
• If the camera recognizes a person's face, the self-timer lamp (A 4) blinks. Just after
the shutter is released, the self-timer lamp blinks rapidly.
• Each time the shutter is released, the camera again begins face recognition and smile
detection operations for continuous automatic shooting.
4
Exit smile mode by pressing the shooting
mode button.
Change to another shooting mode.
C
Shooting in the Smile Mode
When using Smile mode, auto off (A 94) will turn the camera off if no operations are performed in
the following situations:
• The camera does not recognize any faces.
• The camera recognized the face but cannot detect a smiling face.
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Smile
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