Sony a9, Instruction Manual

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ILCE-9
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AF On
You can focus without pressing the shutter button halfway down. The
settings for the focus mode dial will be applied.
Press the AF-ON (AF On) button while shooting in autofocus
mode.
Hint
• Set [ AF w/ shutter] to [Off] when you do not want to perform auto
focusing using the shutter button.
• Set [ AF w/ shutter], [ Pre-AF], and [ Eye-Start AF] to [Off] to focus at
a specific shooting distance predicting the position of the subject.
Face/Eye AF Set.
This function is used to determine whether or not the camera will focus
with priority on human faces or eyes.
MENU

(Camera Settings 1)

[Face/Eye AF Set.]

desired
setting item.
Face Priority in AF: Sets whether or not to detect faces inside the
focusing area and focus on the eyes (Eye AF) when autofocus is
activated. ([On]/[Off])
Right/Left Eye Select: Specifies the eye to be detected. If [Right Eye] or
[Left Eye] is selected, only the selected eye is detected.
[Auto]: The camera detects eyes automatically.
[Right Eye]: The right eye of the subject (the eye on the left side from
the photographer’s perspective) is detected.
[Left Eye]: The left eye of the subject (the eye on the right side from the
photographer’s perspective) is detected.
Face Detect. Frame Disp.: Sets whether or not to display the face
detection frame when [Face Priority in AF] is set to [On]. ([On]/[Off])