Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

Shooting, Playback and Setup Menus

yCenter

Camera focuses on subject in center of frame. Center focus area is used.

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Focus area

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.

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

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single 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.

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Nortel Networks P5100 Shooting with Face-Priority, 106, Face is framed by a double border and the others by, Be locked