0 Selecting the Face to Focus On (Face Select and Track)

You can select a chosen face to focus on and then shoot.

Face Frame

Set the Face Select mode.

●Point the camera towards the face and press the 0 button.

XThe Face Select mode will activate and a

white face frame ( ) will display around the face the camera will focus on. Even if the subject moves, the frame will follow the subject within a certain range.

Select a face you wish to focus on.

●Press the 0 button, and a face frame will move to the face you wish to focus on. If the frame has moved to all detected faces, the Face Select mode will be canceled.

●Holding down the 0 button will display face frames (up to 35) of all the detected faces (green: the face the camera will focus on, white: detected faces).

Shoot.

●Press the shutter button halfway. The face frame of the focused face will change into and appears in green.

●Press the shutter button all the way to shoot.

In the following cases, the Face Select mode will be canceled.

• When turning the power off and back on or changing the shooting mode.

•When displaying the Menu screen.

•When using the digital zoom or digital tele-converter.

•When changing the recording pixels to .

•When the screen is turned off (p. 45).

•When the camera cannot detect any face.

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