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234 The “Recording” (Camera icon) Menu Settings

face can’t be obscured – that is, no sunglasses, no hats, or anything else that
would give the image recognition algorithm a hard time. And even if the
camera detects that there is more than one face in the picture, it doesn’t
wait for both faces to smile – only one face will trigger it. (That’s why I
said this feature was great for self-portraits but not necessarily for group
pictures.)

Figure 5-73: The smile shutter is an interesting feature but is easily fooled.
(It triggered all of these pictures!)

Some additional details about this feature you ought to know:
 Smile Shutter is also a real energy hog – the camera is constantly on a
high state of alert, analyzing the live view stream and staying on
regardless of what you have Power Save set to.
 Invoking Smile shutter automatically activates wide area AF and
single-shot.
 It’s not selectable if you’re in Manual Focus mode.

TIP: I haven’t tried this myself, but reader Tim Boyle suggests using Smile
Detection at a party – just put your camera on a tripod, set your lens to
“Wide”, ensure that the battery is fully charged, and let the camera shoot
whatever smiling faces it sees!

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