Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

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 27). 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 (A107).

•When pictures in which a face was detected during shooting are played back, the pictures will be,

automatically rotated for playback display, according to the orientation of the face detected except pictures that were taken using Continuous, BSS and Multi-shot 16 (A103).

Menus Setup and Playback Shooting,

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