Framing Assist

To use the Face-priority AF, follow the steps below.

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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 recognizes it and is framed with Y (yellow).

•When the camera recognizes 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 (Yor Z) disappears because the subject moves, the camera goes back to the screen in step 1.

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Press the shutter-release button halfway

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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