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Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

Shooting with Face Priority

When the camera is pointed at a face, the face is automatically detected and the camera focuses on the face.

The face priority function will be enabled for scenarios such as the following.

•Face priority is selected for AF area mode (A104)

•When Scene auto selector (A45), Portrait (A38) or Night portrait (A39) is chosen for scene mode

•When using smart portrait mode (A51)

1 Frame the picture.

Menus Setup and Playback Shooting,

•When the camera detects a face, 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

Number of faces

border

to be recognized

 

Auto mode (Face priority)

The face closest to the

 

Scene auto selector, Portrait

camera

Up to 12

* The other faces are

or Night portrait scene modes

 

framed by a single border.

 

 

 

 

The face closest to the

 

Smart portrait mode

camera

Up to 3

* The other faces are

 

 

 

framed by a single border.

 

 

 

 

2 Press the shutter-release button halfway.

•The camera focuses on the face framed by the double

border. The double border will glow green and focus will be locked.

•When the camera is unable to focus on a face, the

double border will blink. Press the shutter-release button halfway again and focus.

• Press the shutter-release button all the way down to shoot.

• When using smart portrait mode, even if the shutter-release button is not pressed, the

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shutter is released automatically if the camera detects that the face framed by the double border is smiling (Smile timer) (A53).