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Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu
Shooting, Playback and Setup Menus
Face Priority
When the camera is pointed at a face, the face is automatically detected and the
camera focuses on the face.
Face priority functions in the following situations.
• When AF area mode is set to Face priority (default setting) (A 101)
• When scene mode is set to Scene auto selector (A 34), Portrait (A 34), or
Night portrait (A 35)
• When using smart portrait mode (A 47)
1 Frame a picture.
• When the camera detects a face, that face will be
framed by a yellow double border.
• When the camera detects more than one face, operation varies, depending upon the
shooting mode, as follows.
2 Press the shutter-release button halfway.
•
Focus will be on the face framed by the double border. The
double border will glow green once focus has been locked.
• When the camera is unable to focus, the double border
will blink. Press the shutter-release button halfway again
and focus.
• Press the shutter-release button the rest of the way
down to take the picture.
• When using 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 (Smile timer) (A 49).
Shooting mode
Faces framed by a double
border
The number of faces
to be recognized
A
(auto) mode (Face priority)
The face closest to the
camera
* The other faces are
framed by a single border.
Up to 12
Scene mode: Scene auto
selector, Portrait, Night
portrait
Smart portrait mode
The face closest to the
center of the frame
* The other faces are
framed by a single border.
Up to 3
11
11
11
F2.7
F2.7
F2.71/125
1/125
1/125