Smile, Or The Camera
Won't Take Your Picture
Sony's smile shutter
technology has finally
made it to Costa Rica
and for ¢303.000 colones
(us$612) you will never
have frowning faces in
your pictures again.
Smile shutter is the
latest wrinkle for the
"face-detection"
technology that several
camera makers introduced
in the past year or so.
By automatically
detecting faces in a
scene, these cameras
automatically adjust
focus and lighting
settings. Some can even
fix red-eye on the fly.
Sony is first to market
with smile shutter. The
company says the T200
and the 8-megapixel
DSC-T70 model capture
smiles according to
multiple factors: It
looks at when a
subject's cheeks and
cheekbones are going
higher. The camera is
more likely to detect a
broad smile when your
teeth are showing.
Smile-detection accuracy
also rises, Sony says,
if your subject narrows
his or her eyes, and
their bangs don't hang
to the eyes.
Conditions have to be
just right. Smile
shutter may not work if
the person you're
shooting turns her head,
covers her mouth, dons
sunglasses or wears
thicker eyeglass frames.
The camera is available
in Costa Rica at all
Play stores.
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