Using Intelligent Face Detection when taking pictures

Intelligent Face Detection allows you to focus on and adjust the brightness of people’s faces. Intelligent Face Detection is effective with the camera held horizontally or vertically.

Available Shooting modes: B, , (H,

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Available AF modes: All except MF (Manual focus)1 Set Intelligent Face Detection.

Press . Intelligent Face Detection setting changes each time you press .

CAUTION

 

 

• If the camera is unable to detect faces in an image, it will

 

 

 

not correct the red eye-effect sufficiently, or not at all.

 

 

 

Also, the camera cannot correct the red-eye effect if the

 

 

 

face is in profile.

 

Using

 

 

• Correction results may differ depending on the scene.

 

 

 

 

 

• The processing may take more time if there are many

the

 

 

faces in an image.

 

 

 

• When [ CCD-RAW] is set to [ON] in the [SET-UP]

Camera

 

 

menu, the red eye correction function is invalid.

2 Check the composition on the LCD monitor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When there are multiple people

 

 

AUTO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

in the frame, Intelligent Face

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ISO AUTO(1600)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Detection will set a green frame

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

around the face nearest to the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

center of the picture. This face

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

has focusing priority.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Green frame3 Press the shutter button down fully to take pictures.

FACE DETECTION

OFF REMOVAL ON

FACE DETECTION

REMOVAL OFF

Red-eye effect, caused by the light of the flash reflecting off the inside of the eye, will be corrected automatically when a picture is taken with [ FACE DETECTIONbREMOVAL ON] set.

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