Selecting the Focus Area (A, B, C, DModes)

Shooting on More

Shooting with Face Priority

The camera automatically detects and focuses on a face.

The face priority function is enabled for the following situations.

•Face priority is selected for AF area mode (A84)

•When Scene auto selector (A46), Portrait (A48) or Night portrait (A49) is selected in scene mode

•When a(Smile timer) is selected (A36)

1 Frame the picture.

•When the camera detects a face, the focus area

containing the face is displayed with a double yellow border.

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•When the camera detects more than one face, depending upon the shooting mode, the operation varies as follows.

Shooting mode

Faces framed by a double

Number of faces to be

border

recognized

 

A, B, C, D, E, F, N

 

 

modes (Face priority)

The face closest to the camera

 

Scene auto selector,

* The other faces are framed by

Up to 12

a single border.

 

Portrait or Night portrait

 

scene modes

 

 

 

The face closest to the center

 

a(Smile timer)

of the frame

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 lights in green and the focus is locked.

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

 

double border blinks. Press the shutter-release button

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halfway again and focus.

 

 

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

•If the shutter-release button is fully pressed down while a(Smile timer) is set, the shutter releases automatically when the camera detects a smiling face (A36).

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