Menus Setup and Playback Shooting,

Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

BNotes on Face priority

•In Face priority, if the shutter-release button is pressed halfway when no faces are recognized, AF area mode will be set to Auto.

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

•Depending on shooting conditions, such as whether or not the subject is facing the camera, faces may not be detected.

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 there are multiple people in the frame, the face on which the camera focuses depends on a variety of shooting conditions, such as whether or not the subject is facing the camera.

•In some rare cases, the subject may not be in focus despite the fact that the double border glows green (A 25). 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 (A102).

•Images that were taken using face priority will be rotated and displayed automatically according to the orientation of the faces detected, in full-frame and thumbnail playback modes (excluding pictures that were shot using Continuous, BSS and Multi-shot 16 (A98)).

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