Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu
Menus Setup and Playback Shooting,
When the camera is pointed at a human face, face recognition, which the camera automatically recognizes that face and focus on it, starts. The face priority function is activated in the following situations.
•AF area mode (A106) is set to Face priority
•In Scene auto selector (A37), Portrait (A37) and Night portrait (A38) scene modes
•In smart portrait mode (A49)
1Frame a picture.
When the camera recognizes a face, that face is framed by a yellow double border.
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When the camera recognizes more than one face, operation varies as follows depending upon the shooting mode.
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| (Face priority) | The face closest to the camera |
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| Scene auto selector, | * The other faces are framed by | Up to 12 |
| Portrait, Night portrait | a single border. |
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| The face closest to the center of |
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| Smart portrait mode | the frame | Up to 3 |
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2Press the
The camera focuses on the face framed by the double border. The double border turns green and focus is locked.
When the camera is unable to focus, the double border will blink. Press the
and focus.
Press the
If the camera detects that the face framed by the double border is smiling in smart portrait mode, the Smile timer
(A49) is activated and the shutter is automatically released without the shutter- release button having been pressed.
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