Sony SLT-A77 Digital Camera User Manual


 
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Shooting (Advanced operations)
Detecting faces
The camera detects faces, adjusts the focus, exposure, performs image
processing, and adjusts flash settings.
Fn button t (Face Detection) t Select the desired setting
The Face Detection frame
Compose to overlay the Face Detection frame and the AF area.
Face Detection
Off Turns off Face Detection.
On (Regist. Faces) Enables Face Detection and prioritizes recognized faces that
have been registered in [Face Registration] (page 128).
On Enables Face Detection, but does not prioritize recognized
faces.
When the camera detects faces, gray Face
Detection frames appear. When the
camera judges that autofocus is possible,
the Face Detection frames turn white.
When you press the shutter button
halfway down, the Face Detection frames
turn green.
If a face is not positioned inside the AF
area available when you press the
shutter button halfway down, the AF
area that is used for focusing turns
green.
When the camera detects multiple
faces, the camera automatically selects
a priority face and the single Face
Detection frame turns white. A magenta
frame appears on a face that is
registered with [Face Registration].
Face Detection frames (white)
Shooting technique
Face Detection
frames (gray)