Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

Shooting, Playback and Setup Menus

Face Priority

The face-priority function is activated when Face priority (default setting) is selected for AF area mode (A100), when shooting in Scene auto selector (A34), Portrait (A34), or Night portrait (A35) scene mode, or when

shooting in smile mode (A45).

The camera automatically detects and focuses on a face looking toward the camera.

1Frame a picture.

When the camera recognizes a face looking toward the camera, that face will be framed by a yellow double border.

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When the camera detects more than one face, operation varies, depending upon the shooting mode, as follows.

Shooting mode

Faces framed by a double border

The number of faces

 

 

to be recognized

A(auto) mode

 

 

(Face priority)

The face closest to the camera

 

Scene mode: Scene auto

* The other faces are framed by

Up to 12

selector, Portrait, Night

a single border.

 

portrait

 

 

 

The face closest to the center of

 

Smile mode

the frame

Up to 3

* The other faces are framed by

 

 

 

a single border.

 

 

 

 

2Press the shutter-release button halfway.

Focus will be on the face framed by the double border.

 

The double border will glow green once focus has been

 

locked.

 

When the camera is unable to focus, the double border

 

will blink. Press the shutter-release button halfway again

 

and focus.

 

Press the shutter-release button the rest of the way down

1/125 F3.1

to take the picture.

 

You don’t need to press the shutter-release button halfway in smile mode. If the camera detects the smiling face, the shutter is automatically released (A45).

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