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Various Shooting Methods

The AF frame appears as follows when the shutter button is pressed halfway.

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Green

: Focus is achieved

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Yellow

: Focusing difficulty (AF frame set to

 

 

[Center])

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No AF frame

: Focusing Difficulty (AF frame set to

 

 

[Face Detect] or [AiAF])

Face Detect Feature

zMaximum of three Face frames will be displayed at the position of the face the camera recognizes. At this point, the frame the camera judges to be the main subject appears in white while the others appear in gray. When the shutter button is pressed halfway, up to 9 green AF frames may appear.

zThe camera will shoot using [AiAF] not the [Face Detect] function if a white frame fails to appear and only gray frames display, or if a face is not detected.

zThe camera may mistakenly identify non-human subjects as a face.

zIn certain cases, faces may not be detected. Examples:

-If faces are at the edge of the screen, or appear extremely small, large, dark or bright, relative to the overall composition.

-Faces turned to the side or at a diagonal, or faces with a portion hidden.

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Canon IXUS 860 IS appendix Face Detect Feature, Center, No AF frame, Face Detect or AiAF