User's Manual

56 Basic Settings
h Auto-area AF
The camera automatically detects the subject and
selects the focus area. Use on occasions when you
don’t have time to select the focus point yourself,
for portraits, or for snapshots and other spur-of-
the-moment photos. The camera gives priority to
portrait subjects; if a portrait subject is detected,
an amber border indicating the focus point will
appear around the subject’s face or, if the camera
detects the subject’s eyes, one or the other of
their eyes (face/eye-detection AF; 0 57). You can
also configure the camera to detect the faces and
eyes of dogs and cats by selecting Animal
detection for Custom Setting a4 (Auto-area AF
face/eye detection; for more information, see
“Animal Face/Eye-Detection”, 0 58). Face- and
eye-detection free you to concentrate on
composition and your subject’s expression when
photographing active human and animal portrait
subjects. Subject tracking can be activated by
pressing the J button (0 59). It can also be
assigned to the camera Fn1 or Fn2 or lens Fn or Fn2
button using Custom Setting f2 or g2 (Custom
control assignment).
A s: The Center Focus Point
In all AF-area modes except Auto-area AF, a dot appears in the focus
point when it is in the center of the frame.
A Quick Focus-Point Selection
For quicker focus-point selection, choose Every other point for
Custom Setting a5 (Focus points used) to use only a quarter of the
available focus points. The number of points available for Pinpoint AF
and Wide-area AF (L) does not change. If you prefer to use the sub-
selector for focus-point selection, you can choose Select center focus
point for Custom Setting f2 (Custom control assignment)> Sub-
selector center to allow the center of the sub-selector to be used to
quickly select the center focus point.
Option Description