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Sh
ooting Feat
ures
Using Face Detection
When the following shooting modes or settings are
selected, the camera uses face detection to
automatically focus on human faces. If the camera
detects more than one face, a double border is
displayed around the face that the camera will focus on,
and single borders are displayed around the other faces.
• When using Face priority , if you press the shutter-release button halfway while
no faces are detected or while framing a shot with no faces in it, the camera selects
the focus area (up to nine areas) containing the subject closest to the camera.
• When using scene auto selector, the focus area changes depending on which
scene the camera selects.
• If no faces are detected when the shutter-release button is pressed halfway
when using
Portrait or Night portrait , the camera will focus on the subject in
the center of the frame.
Shooting mode
Number of faces that
can be detected
Focus area
(double border)
When AF area mode (
A
37) in
A
(auto) mode or continuous shooting
mode is set to
Face priority
Up to 12
The face closest to the
camera
Scene auto selector, Portrait , or Night
portrait scene mode (
A
39) is selected
Smile timer, smile timer continuous
(
A
61)
Up to 3
The face closest to the
center of the frame
8 4 0 8 4 0
2 9 m 0 s 2 9 m 0 s
B
Notes About Face Detection
• The camera’s ability to detect faces depends on a variety of factors, including the direction in which the
faces are looking. Additionally, the camera may be unable to detect 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 detected 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, such as those described in “Autofocus” (
A
29), the subject may not be in
focus even though the double border turns green. Should this occur, change AF area mode to
Manual or Center in
A
(auto) mode, and try focus lock shooting (
A
78) by focusing on another
subject that is the same distance from the camera.
B
Viewing Images That Were Captured Using Face Detection
• During playback, the camera automatically rotates images according to the orientation of the faces
that were detected at the time of shooting, except when viewing an image captured in a series.
• When zooming in on an image displayed full-frame by rotating the zoom control to
g
(
i
), the
image will be enlarged so that the face that was detected at the time of shooting is displayed in
the center of the monitor (
A
31), except when viewing an image captured in a series.