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Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

Face Priority

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

Face priority functions in the following situations.

•When AF area mode is set to Face priority (default setting) (A101)

•When scene mode is set to Scene auto selector (A34), Portrait (A34), or Night portrait (A35)

•When using smart portrait mode (A47)

1Frame a picture.

•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

The number of faces

border

to be recognized

 

A(auto) mode (Face priority)

The face closest to the

 

Scene mode: Scene auto

camera

Up to 12

selector, Portrait, Night

* The other faces are

 

portrait

framed by a single border.

 

 

The face closest to the

 

Smart portrait mode

center of 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 to take the picture.

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

shutter is released automatically if the camera detects that the face framed by the double border is smiling (Smile timer) (A49).

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