Nikon COOLPIXS80RD User Manual

Shooting Smiling Faces (Smart Portrait Mode)

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B

• Digital zoom is not available.
• Self-timer is not available.
• Touch shutter cannot be enabled.
• Under some shooting conditions, the camera may be unable to detect faces or detect smiles.
• See “Notes on Face Detection” (A 49) for more information.

B

• More time than usual may be required to save a picture when shooting with skin softening 

function.

• In some shooting conditions, facial skin tones may not be smoothed or parts other than face may 

be modified though the camera detects a face. If the desired results are not produced, set Skin 
softening to Off and shoot again.

• The skin softening level cannot be adjusted when the portrait or night portrait is selected in the 

scene mode.

• Retouch effects such as the glamour retouch function’s skin softening effect can be applied to 

pictures after they are taken (

C

The self-timer lamp blinks slowly when the smile timer is enabled and the camera detects a face, and 
it blinks quickly immediately after the shutter is released.

C

Pictures can also be taken by pressing the shutter-release button. The camera focuses on the subject 
at the center of the frame when faces are not detected.

C

When Smile timer is set to On, the auto off function (

A 155) is activated and the camera turns off 

when either of the situations indicated below persists and no other operations are performed.

• The camera does not detect any faces.
• The camera detected a face, but cannot detect a smile.

D

See “Autofocus” (

A 29) for more information.