Selecting a Shooting Mode

Face Detection

When the camera is pointed at a human face in the shooting modes listed below, the camera automatically detects the face and focuses on it. When the camera detects more than one face, the double border (focus area) is displayed around the face that is focused on, and single borders around the others.

3

Shooting mode

Number of faces that

Focus area

can be detected

(double border)

 

A(auto) mode (A 26)

 

The face closest to the

Scene auto selector, Portrait,

Up to 12

camera

Night portrait scene mode (A 58)

 

 

 

Smart portrait mode (A 74)

Up to 3

The face closest to the

center of the frame

 

 

•In A(auto) mode, if no faces are detected when the shutter-release button is pressed halfway, the camera automatically selects one (or more) of the nine focus areas containing the subject closest to the camera.

•In Scene auto selector scene mode, the focus area changes depending on the selected scene.

•In Portrait and Night portrait scene modes or smart portrait mode, if no faces are detected when the shutter-release button is pressed halfway, the camera will focus on the subject at the center of the frame.

•Tap a face framed by a single border to change the focus area to that face (A 45, 50).

•In subject tracking mode, subject tracking begins when a detected face framed by a border is tapped (A 48).

BNotes on the Face Detection Function

More on Shooting

•The camera may be unable to detect faces in the following situations:

-When faces are partially hidden by sunglasses or other obstructions

-When faces take up too much or too little of the frame

•When the frame includes more than one face, the faces detected by the camera and the face on which the camera focuses depend upon a variety of factors, including the direction in which the faces are looking.

•In some cases, including those noted in “Autofocus” (A 31), autofocus may not perform as expected, and the subject may not be in focus despite the fact that the double border glows

green. Should this occur, refocus on another subject positioned at the same distance from the camera as the actual portrait subject (A 52).

CNotes on Pictures Including Detected Faces

•When pictures in which a face was detected during shooting are played back, the pictures will be

automatically rotated for playback display according to the orientation of the face detected except pictures that were taken using Continuous, BSS, and Multi-shot 16 (A 54), or the subject tracking function (A 48).

•In full-frame playback mode, the picture will be enlarged with the face detected during shooting at the center of the monitor when the zoom control is rotated to g (i) (A 84) except pictures

that were taken using Continuous, BSS, and Multi-shot 16 (A 54), or the subject tracking

 

function (A 48).

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