0 Selecting the Person to Focus On (Face Select)

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

Set the Face Select mode.

Point the camera toward the face and press the 0 button.

X After [Face Select : On] displays, a face frame will appear around the face detected as the main subject.

Even if the subject moves, the 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 0button, will move to another detected face.

When the frame has made a full circuit of all detected faces, [Face Select : Off] will appear and the AF frame mode screen will reappear.

Shoot.

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

Press the shutter button fully to shoot.

Confirming the number of detected faces

Keeping the 0 button pressed will display the number of faces detected by the camera (35 at the most) (green: main subject’s face, white: detected face).

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Canon A2100 IS Selecting the Person to Focus On Face Select, Set the Face Select mode, Select the face on which to focus