•Face recognition in the Family First mode may be slower than in the Normal mode because the camera needs time to determine whether the faces in the image are the same as the recorded faces. Also, compared with the Normal mode, the Family First mode will not be able to recognize faces that are far away and small.

•If the camera is unable to find a face when you press the shutter button, it will focus on the center of the screen.

•Always make sure that Auto Focus (AF) is selected as the focus mode when shooting with face recognition. Use of no other focus mode is supported.

•When shooting with the camera held sideways (for a portrait orientation shot), face recognition may take more time when shooting with the camera held normally (landscape orientation).

•Face recognition cannot be used in combination with any of the following features.

–Images recorded with certain BEST SHOT scenes (Business cards and documents, White board, etc., Old Photo, ID Photo, Layout, Auto Framing)

–Movie mode, MOVIE BEST SHOT scenes

•The following functions are disabled when shooting with face recognition.

–Multi AF

Manually Configuring Shutter Speed and Aperture Settings

You can select an exposure mode to control how the camera configures its aperture and shutter speed settings when recording an image.

A Mode (Aperture

You set the aperture manually, and the

Priority AE)

camera sets the applicable shutter speed

 

automatically.

S Mode (Shutter

You set the shutter speed manually, and

Speed Priority

the camera sets the applicable aperture

AE)

value automatically.

M Mode (Manual

You can set the shutter speed and

Exposure)

aperture manually.

 

 

•In the S mode and A mode, you can also change the exposure compensation (EV shift) setting.

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