After setting PRE-REC, if recording starts in less than 3 seconds, or while the PRE-REC indication flashes within about 3 seconds after initiating the quick start operation, motion pictures taken 3 seconds before pressing the recording start/stop button cannot be recorded.

Images displayed on the thumbnail in playback mode will differ from the motion pictures displayed at the start of playback.

Smile shot

When a smiling face is detected during motion picture recording, the unit automatically records a still picture.

The icon changes each time it is touched.

([ON]) # ([FACE RECOG.]) # [OFF]

: The unit records a still picture on detecting a smiling face.

: Still pictures are only recorded when the face of a person registered using face recognition (l 52) is detected.

[OFF]: Cancel the setting.

During smile shot recording, the face detected as a smiling face is surrounded by a green

frame and / are red.

Smile shot recording will not work in the following cases. ( / will flash)

j

When there is no SD card inserted

j /

When [MEDIA SELECT] is set to [PICTURE/SD CARD], and there is no SD card inserted. jWhen it is set to manual focus

jWhen [FACE RECOG.] is set to [OFF], or no one is registered (In ([FACE RECOG.]) only)

Depending on the recording conditions (type of smile, camera shake, etc.), the face of the

subject may not be detected correctly.

≥ The number of recording pixels are 3M (2304k1296) or 2.1M (1920k1080). (l 60)

When still pictures that have been recorded using the smile shot are displayed as thumbnails, the appears.

When the AF/AE tracking function is target locking a face of the subject, still pictures are

only recorded if a smiling face is detected on the locked subject. When the smile shot

function is set to ([FACE RECOG.]), it will record only if a face of the subject registered with [FACE RECOG.] is locked as a target.

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