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Framing Assist
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To use the Face-priority AF, follow the steps below.
Face-priority AF
•The camera focuses continuously, until the camera recognizes a subject’s face.
•When the camera does not recognize a face, the object at the center of the frame is focused.
•Optical zoom is available in the Face-priority AF, but digital zoom does not work.
•The face selected for focusing by the camera varies depending upon a number of condi-
tions including the direction in which each person is facing.
•The camera is unable to recognize human faces in the following situations:
- The subject is wearing sunglasses or part of face is obstructed in some other way.
- The subject is facing sideways.
- The face portion is too big because the subject is too close to the camera.
- The face portion is too small because the subject is too far away from the camera.
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Rotate the mode dial to i. X blinks in
the center of the monitor (default set-
ting).
•X indicates the size of a subject's face
that the camera can recognize.
•If a different framing assist menu is select-
ed, press ^ button and select K.
When the subject's face becomes almost
the same size as X, the camera recog-
nizes it and is framed with Y (yellow).
•When the camera re cognizes more than
one face, the closest and largest is framed
with Y (yellow) and the others with Z
(yellow). The camera can recognize up to
three faces.
•If the frame (Y or Z) disappears because
the subject moves, the camera goes back
to the screen in step 1.
3Press the shutter-release button halfway
to lock the focus on the face framed with
Y (yellow). When focus is locked, the
color changes from yellow to green.
Press the shutter-release button the rest
of the way down to take the picture.