Owner's Manual

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Focus
5 Point the camera at a person.
• All detected faces will have a face detection frame. The main subject will be indicated with a face detection
frame with small arrows (white when autofocus is active, gray or yellow* during manual focus). If eye
detection is enabled, a frame will appear on the eyes of the main subject.
• Push the joystick (left/right) to select a different person as the main subject. When eye detection is enabled
and both eyes have been detected, you can push the joystick (left/right) to select either eye.
• During continuous AF, the camera will keep focusing on the main subject’s face/eyes.
• If you use face detection together with the tracking function, the camera will be able to track the selected
main subject more reliably. When you touch a subject on the LCD screen, tracking will be activated and the
face detection frame will change to a double frame £ (tracking frame). This is better if you want to track a
subject when it is difficult to keep seeing their face.
* [AF-Boosted MF] within manual adjustment range.
Options
[Face Priority]: The camera focuses according to the AF mode currently selected.
[Face Only]: The camera locks the focus.
Face AF operation by AF mode
NOTES
NOTES
• Typical examples of faces not correctly detected
- Faces extremely small, large, dark or bright in relation to the overall picture.
- Faces that are turned to the side, at a diagonal, partially hidden or upside-down.
• Face detection AF, tracking and eye detection cannot be used in the following cases.
- When the shutter speed used is slower than 1/30 (59.94 Hz recordings), 1/25 (50.00 Hz recordings) or 1/24
(59.94 Hz recordings with a 23.98P frame rate).
- When slow & fast motion recording is activated.
- When > [v Camera Setup] > [Digital Zoom] is set to [Digital 300x] and the zoom ratio exceeds 60x.
- When > [v Camera Setup] > [Digital Zoom] is set to [Tele-converter 6.0x].
- When infrared recording is activated.
• Face detection AE cannot be used in the following cases.
- When shutter speed, ISO speed/gain and aperture are set to manual.
- When the light metering mode is set to [Spotlight].
• The camera may mistakenly detect the faces of non-human subjects. In such case, turn face detection &
tracking off.
• If you set an assignable button to [Face Det. & Tracking], [Face AF] or [Face Detection AE] (A 115), you can
press the button to adjust those settings.
> [ v Camera Setup] >
[AF Mode] and focus operation
> [ v Camera Setup] > [Face AF]
[Face Priority] [Face Only]
Face detected No face detected Face detected No face detected
[Continuous] (autofocus),
[AF-Boosted MF] within the automatic adjustment range
Focus on the
detected face
Focus on the
subject inside
the AF frame
Focus on the
detected face
Manual focus
[AF-Boosted MF] within the manual adjustment range
(yellow AF frame)
Manual focus