Camera hesitates when clicked.

It's probably acting normal. Every camera (in one of the auto modes) must focus before it takes the image. In low light situations, or low contrast situations (white dog against a white background), many cameras have difficulty finding focus. This causes a delay before the shutter clicks. Try taking your camera out on a nice sunny day and take a pic. If there's no delay, there's your answer. If in a low light situation, click your flash on. That may help a bit to reduce the delay.

Go to settings and see if it has a timer if so position the camera where you want it hit the picture button get in position and smile

Press the shutter button half-way and allow the camera to lock in the focus (it will beep) and when the moment is right, press the rest of the way.

there really isn't, sad to say. I too used to take photos of my grandchildren and got really tire of getting an "after the cute smile, or event" image. (back of head, etc). I upgraded to a DSLR camera and no longer have that problem. I use the continuous shooting mode, so it shoots several images in a row, and I don't miss a thing!!!!!

Check to see if your are in smile shot

Lets check the SD card first.

Take out the SD card and put it in external card reader connected to computer.

Copy/transfer all the photos from the SD card to computer.

goto My Computer and right-click the 'Removable Disk' (the SD card drive) and click Properties.
click Tools and click Error checking - Check now button
select the option 'automatically fix file-system errors' and click Start button.
if any errors was found and fixed, you can also Format the SD card. And your SD card should not drop photos again.

Now put SD card back in the camera.

Now take 20 test photos and check if something is missing.
if not take 20 more test photos and check if something is missing.
if all is ok then you can delete all test photos and start taking normal photos.

Select the smile shutter option from the program settings. You will see an icon of a smiley face on the bottom left hand of the screen. To activate the automatic shot of when a person smiles, simply hold down the shutter button for a second or two. Now, when the camera face detection senses a smile, it will automatically take the picture. To deactivate it, press the shutter button again, the camera will then tell you how many shots it took. Hope this helps.

Sorry this is the norm of alot of dig cameras..try pushing the picture botten then two seconds later say smile!

some camera's are like that. but i found out when taking the picture click once fast then click twice and hold it down. try that let me now how you went

Hi richelle
Turn the dial to (SCENE)
Scroll to # 12 (SMILE)
Press (OK)
Center subjects face,
Or the center subject in a group photo.
Say Cheese,
Click,Click,Click You got em
A couple of help full hints here.

#1 You need good lighting, so the face/smile detection works.
#2 Make sure you center the mouth in the on screen [brackets]
#3 Helps if they have teeth :o

You have very good taste in cameras.
Best regards and keep em smiling : ) Paul