Nikon S550 User Manual
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Shooting in the Smile Mode
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Face Priority and Smiling Face Detection features
When the camera is pointed at a people’s face (front face) in the smile mode, the face is
automatically recognized and the smiling face of the recognized one is detected.
• In some shooting conditions, face priority will not take effect and smiling face cannot be detected.
• See “Face Priority” (A 96) for more information about Face Priority.
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Operation of Shutter-Release Button
Press the shutter-release button to shoot pictures.
• When the Face priority takes effect, the focus is locked to the recognized face and the shutter-
release button is automatically released.
• When the Face priority doesn’t take effect, the camera focuses on a subject in the same way as the
AF area mode is set to Auto (
A 94). The camera focuses on one of the 9 focus areas which
captures the nearest subject.
• When the shutter-release button is pressed halfway and released in Face priority mode, the
camera will recognize the face again. Pressing
k will also recognize the face again.
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Recognition of Add to List
• When two people are framed with a single border and only one of them is registered in Add to
list, the single border color does not become blue. Also in this case, if the double border is yellow
and the smiling face recognized as a registered people is detected, the shutter is released.
• When people are registered in Add to list and Face recognition is set to ON (A 45), the
registered people may not be recognized and the AF area display frame may not be blue.
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Available Functions in Smile Mode
• The default setting of the flash mode in smile mode is V (Auto with red-eye reduction).
• Settings can be changed for Flash mode (A 28) and Exposure Compensation (A 32).
• Digital zoom is not available.
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Playing Back Pictures where Smiling Faces Are Detected
When a is selected from the playback mode menus, the pictures shot by detecting smiling faces in
the smile mode can be played back. See “Viewing Smile Pictures” (
A 59) for more information on
using this function.