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Press the shutter-release button halfway.
• The camera focuses on the face framed by the double
border. The double border lights in green and the focus
is locked.
• When the camera is unable to focus on a face, the
double border blinks. Press the shutter-release button
halfway again and focus.
• Press the shutter-release button all the way to shoot.
• When using Smile timer in smart portrait mode, even if the shutter-release button is
not pressed, the shutter is released automatically if the camera detects that the face
framed by the double border is smiling (
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67).
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Notes on Face Priority
• When Face priority is selected for AF area mode , the setting automatically switches to Auto if
no faces are detected when the shutter-release button is pressed halfway.
• If no faces are detected when the shutter-release button is pressed halfway in the
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(Night
portrait) or Portrait scene mode, or smart portrait mode, the camera focuses on the subject in the
center focus area.
• The camera may not detect faces in the following situations:
- When faces are partially hidden by sunglasses or other obstructions
- When faces take up too much or too little of the frame
• If the camera detects more than one face, the face that it focuses on depends on the shooting
conditions, such as whether or not the subject is facing the camera.
• In some rare cases of shooting subjects for which autofocus does not perform as expected (
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33),
the subject may not be in focus despite the fact that the double border lights in green. If you
cannot focus, change the AF area mode setting to
Manual or Center , or try shooting with focus
lock (
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33) by switching the shooting mode to a mode such as auto mode and refocusing on
another subject at the same distance.
• Pictures that were shot using face priority will be rotated automatically when displayed in full-
frame or thumbnail playback mode according to the orientation of the face (except for pictures
shot while continuous (
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94) was set).
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