Samsung WB550 User Manual page 48

Fn button: Face Detection
Self Portrait
When taking pictures of yourself, the area of your face is automatically
detected so that you can take self portraits more easily and quickly.
1. For self-fi lming, set the camera lens
towards the face of the object.
It automatically detects the face of the
object, and emits a guiding sound.
- When locating the face in the center of
the screen, it repeatedly emits a faster
sound unlike the sounds that are emitted
when the face is not in the center.
2. Start fi lming by pressing the Shutter button.
The guiding sound can be set using the [Self-Portrait] Menu.
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Smile Shot
The camera automatically takes a picture
by detecting the face of the subject
although you don't press the shutter button.
If you press the Shutter button,
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the picture is taken in the normal way.
When taking a picture of smile shot,
showing teethes or keeping the smiley face
of your subject helps detecting
the smile face of the subject.
Blink Detection
If the eyes of the subject are closed when
the shutter button is pressed, the camera
takes 3 continuous shots and then the
images are saved.
The camera takes only one picture if the
eyes of the subject are open when the
Shutter button is pressed.
Detecting the smiling face or the blinking eyes may not be
available if any of the following situations occurs:
- If the subject is wearing sunglasses.
- When the subject is not facing directly to the camera.
- If the environmental light is too bright or too dark to detect the
face of the subject.
- When the camera is far from the subject. (Orange colored
focusing mark)
- If there is refl ection of the light or the back light that are too
bright.
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