Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

Shooting with Face Priority

When [Face priority] is selected for [AF area mode], or the [Portrait] scene mode or [Night portrait] scene mode is selected during shooting, the face-priority function will be applied.

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

Menus Setup and Playback Shooting,

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1 Frame the picture.

When the camera detects a face, the focus area containing the face will be displayed with a yellow double border.

When the camera detects more than one face, the closest

 

 

 

face is framed by a double border and the others by single

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borders. Up to 12 faces can be detected.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 double border blinks, the camera is unable to

 

 

 

focus. Press the shutter-release button halfway again to

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focus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

BFace-Priority

•When [Face priority] is selected for [AF area mode], the setting will automatically switch to [Auto] if no face is recognized when the shutter-release button is pressed halfway.

•If no face is recognized when the shutter-release button is pressed halfway in [Portrait] or [Night portrait] scene mode, the camera will focus on the subject in the center focus area.

•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 subject is not looking directly at the camera

•The camera's ability to detect faces depends on a variety of factors, including whether or not the subject is facing the camera.

•In some rare cases shooting subjects with which autofocus may not perform as expected (A25), the subject may not be in focus despite the fact that the double border glows green. Should this occur, switch to A(auto) mode and set [AF area mode] to [Manual] or [Center], refocus on another subject positioned at the same distance from the camera as the actual portrait subject, and use focus lock described below.

•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.