Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

Face Priority

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

The face-priority function is activated when Face priority (default setting) is selected for AF area mode (A116), when shooting in Scene auto selector (A37), Portrait (A37), or Night portrait (A38) scene mode, or when shooting in smile mode (A50).

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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Menus Setup and Playback Shooting,

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

Shooting mode

Faces framed by

The number of faces

a double border

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

frame

Up to 3

* The other faces are framed by

 

 

 

a single border.

 

The camera focuses on the face framed by the double border. To select another face for focusing, tap a face framed by a single border. The border surrounding the selected face will change to a double border.

2 Press 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

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to take the picture.

 

You don’t need to press the shutter-release button halfway in smile mode. If the camera

118detects the smiling face, the shutter is automatically released (A50).