0 Selecting the Person to Focus On (Face Select)

You can select a specific person’s face to focus on and then shoot.

Register 0 to the c button (p. 139).

Frame

Set the Face Select mode.

Point the camera toward the face and press the c button.

After [Face Select : On] displays, a face

frame will appear around the face detected as the main subject.

Even if the subject moves, the frame will follow the subject within a certain range.

If a face is not detected, will not appear.

Select the face on which to focus.

If you press the c button, the frame will move to another face detected by the camera.

When the frame has made a full circuit of all detected faces, the AF frame mode screen will reappear.

Shoot.

Press the shutter button halfway. The face frame of the focused face will change into a green .

Press the shutter button fully to shoot.

Confirming the number of detected faces

Keeping the c button pressed will display the number of faces detected by the camera (35 at the most) (green: main subject’s face, white: detected face).

Not available in Zoom Blur, Stitch Assist or movie modes.

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Canon 990 IS manual Selecting the Person to Focus On Face Select, Register 0 to the c button p, Set the Face Select mode