Nikon Coolpix L100 - Manual (Page 65)

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Using the Smile Mode
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Exit smile mode by pressing A.
Change to another shooting mode.
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Face Priority and Smiling Face Detection features
When the camera is pointed at a person’s face (front view) in the smile mode, the face is
automatically recognized and the smiling face of the recognized person is detected.
• In some shooting conditions, face recognition does not work and faces cannot be detected.
• See “Face Priority” (A 24) for more information about Face Priority.
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Shooting in the Smile Mode
When using Smile mode, Auto off ( A 105) 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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Operation of Shutter-Release Button
Press the shutter-release button to shoot pictures.
• When Face priority takes effect, the focus is locked on the recognized face and the shutter is
released.
• When the Face priority doesn’t take effect, the camera focuses on subject in center of frame.
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Available Functions in Smile Mode
• Settings can be changed for Flash mode (A 30) and Exposure Compensation (A 35).
• Pressing the d button in the smile mode can change the image mode (A 79). If the image
mode setting is changed, the new setting applies to all shooting modes (except sport continuous,
high sensitivity, and movie modes).
• Digital zoom is not available.
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More Information
See, “Autofocus” ( A 25) for more information.