For details about the setting procedure in the [Rec] menu (→26)

[AF Mode]

Method of aligning focus can be changed according to position and number of subjects.

Mode:

Settings: / /

Taking front-on pictures of Detected faces (up to 15 people) and adjusts exposure and focus

people

accordingly.

 

 

(Face Detection)

 

AF area

 

 

 

Yellow: When the shutter button is

 

 

 

 

pressed halfway, the frame

 

 

 

 

turns green when the camera is

 

 

 

 

focused.

 

 

 

 

White: Displayed when more than one

 

 

 

 

face is detected. Other faces

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

that are the same distance away

 

 

 

 

as faces within the yellow AF

 

 

 

 

area are also focused.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Subject not centered in

Automatically focuses on any of 11 points.

 

picture (AF area displayed

 

 

 

only when focused)

 

 

 

 

(11-area-focusing)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Determined position for

Focuses on AF area in center of picture. (Recommended when

 

focus

focus is difficult to align)

(1-area-focusing)

AF area becomes larger in dark locations or when using Digital Zoom, etc. In [Fireworks] Scene Mode, the AF mode setting is fixed to .

Cannot set to “Face Detection” in the following cases: [Panorama Assist], [Night Scenery], [Food] Scene Modes

If the camera misinterprets a non-human subject as a face in the “Face Detection” setting, switch to another setting.

If faces cannot be detected such as when subjects are looking at places other than the camera or when the subject is moving rapidly, the AF mode setting switches to .

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