Shooting Options: Shooting Menu (A(Auto) Mode)

BNotes on Face Priority

•If the camera is unable to recognize any faces when the shutter-release button is pressed halfway with AF area mode set to Face priority, the AF area mode setting automatically switches to Auto.

•If no faces are recognized 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 at the center of the frame.

•The camera may be unable to recognize faces in the following situations:

-When faces are partially hidden by sunglasses or otherwise obstructed

-When faces take up too much or too little of the frame

•When the frame includes more than one face, the faces recognized by the camera and the face on which the camera focuses depend upon a variety of factors, including the direction in which the faces are looking.

•In some rare cases, the subject may not be in focus despite the fact that the double border glows green (A 31). Should this occur, try pressing the shutter-release button halfway to refocus several times, or refocus on another subject positioned at the same distance from the camera as the actual portrait subject (A 39).

•When pictures in which a face was recognized during shooting are played back in full-frame playback mode or thumbnail playback mode, depending upon the orientation of the recognized

face, the pictures may be automatically rotated for playback display except pictures taken with Continuous, BSS, and Multi-shot 16 (A 53).

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Autofocus Mode

A(auto) MF(Shooting menu) MAutofocus mode

Choose how the camera focuses.

ASingle AF (default setting)

The camera focuses when the shutter-release button is pressed halfway or the subject on the monitor is tapped (touch shutter, touch AF/AE).

BFull-time AF

The camera focuses continuously until the shutter-release button is pressed down halfway. Use with moving subjects. The sound of lens drive movement will be heard while the camera focuses.

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