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Using the Camera
Using Intelligent Face Detection/
Red-eye Removal when taking
pictures
Intelligent Face Detection allows you to focus on and
adjust the brightness of people’s faces. Intelligent Face
Detection is effective with the camera held horizontally or
vertically.
Available Shooting modes: AUTO, , , H,
/, , , , , , s
ATo activate Intelligent Face Detection, press once.To
turn Intelligent Face Detection off, press again.
Red-eye effect, caused by the light of the flash reflecting
off the inside of the eye, will be corrected automatically
when a picture is taken with [ FACE
DETECTIONbREMOVAL ON] set.
CAUTION
• If the camera or subject moves as the picture is taken,
the subject’s face may move out of the Intelligent Face
Detection frame.
• When the camera is detecting multiple faces, the green
frame is set around the face near the center. If you want
to focus on another subject, move the camera so that
the new subject is in the center of the LCD monitor.
If focus is still not achieved, press (Intelligent Face
Detection) to turn off the function, and take the picture
using AF/AE lock (➝p.32).
Intelligent Face Detection can focus on a face in a white
frame providing the subjects in the green and white
frame are of the same focal length.
• When the shutter button is pressed halfway with
Intelligent Face Detection off, the focus will be on the
center of the LCD monitor.
• When the shooting mode is set to or s, the image
will be focused with respect to faces, but because the
exposure will be controlled by the shooting mode, faces
will not be adjusted for optimal exposure.
• If the camera is unable to detect faces in an image, it will
not correct the red eye-effect sufficiently, or not at all.
Also, the camera cannot correct the red-eye effect if the
face is in profile.
OFF
FACE DETECTION
REMOVAL ON
FACE DETECTION
REMOVAL OFF
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people in the frame,
Intelligent Face Detection
will set a green frame around
the face nearest to the center
of the picture. This face has
focusing priority.
Green frame
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