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

Face Priority

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 (A45) is set to Face priority

•In Scene auto selector (A52), Portrait (A54), and Night portrait (A55) scene modes

•In smart portrait mode (A63)

1 Frame 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.

 

Shooting mode

Face framed by double border

Number of faces that

 

can be recognized

 

 

 

 

A(auto) mode

 

 

 

(face priority)

The face closest to the camera

 

 

Scene auto selector,

• Other faces framed by single

Up to 12

 

Portrait, or Night

border.

 

 

portrait scene mode

 

 

 

 

The face closest to the center of

 

 

Smart portrait mode

the frame

Up to 3

 

• Other faces framed by single

 

 

 

 

 

border.

 

 

 

 

 

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2Press the shutter-release button halfway.

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 shutter-release button halfway again and focus.

Press the shutter-release button the rest of the way down to take a picture.

If the camera detects that the face framed by the double border is smiling in smart portrait mode, the Smile timer (A65) is activated and the shutter is automatically released without the shutter-release button having been pressed.

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