Selecting the person to focus on (face select), 0 selecting the person to focus on, Face select) – Canon IXUS 990IS User Manual

Page 86: 0 selecting the person to focus on (face select), Select the face on which to focus, Shoot

You can select a specific person’s face to focus on and then shoot.

Register

0 to the c button

Set the Face Select mode.

●

Point the camera toward the face and
press the

c button.

After [Face Select : On] displays, a face
frame

will appear around the face

detected as the main subject.

●

Even if the subject moves, the frame will
follow the subject within a certain range.

●

If a face is not detected,

will not

appear.

Select the face on which to focus.

●

If you press the

c button, the frame will

move to another face detected by the
camera.

●

When the frame has made a full circuit of
all detected faces, the AF frame mode
screen will reappear.

Shoot.

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Press the shutter button halfway. The face
frame of the focused face will change into
a green

●

Press the shutter button fully to shoot.

Keeping the

c button pressed will display the number of faces detected by the

camera (35 at the most) (green: main subject’s face, white: detected face).

0 Selecting the Person to Focus On

(Face Select)

Frame

Confirming the number of detected faces

Not available in Zoom Blur, Stitch Assist or movie modes.