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6.27 FACE REGISTRATION

Menu Position MENU  6  Face Registration

What it Does Allows you to register up to 8 different faces it can prioritize
focusing on a preferred person in a group shot

Recommended Setting n/a

You already know that your
camera (with Face Detection
enabled) is able to recognize
faces and therefore will use those
as the subject on which to focus
and expose for. (In fact, this is
one of my favorite features of
this camera, especially when
shooting toddlers!) Sony has
now pushed this concept even

further by allowing you to
register up to eight different Figure 6-19: You can take a picture of a
faces with the camera. When picture in order to have the camera
faced with a group of many faces prioritize your favorite face.
from which to choose, the
camera will consult with these previously-stored faces and look for a match
– if a match is found, the camera will give focus priority to the registered
faces. What if two registered faces are detected? Then you can tell the
camera which one takes priority.
In theory, Face Registration would be ideal when shooting sports (like
soccer games where the person of interest is flocked by a whole lot of other
people), but regretfully when shooting from the sidelines the faces won’t
really appear large enough for the face recognition to work. And while it
works in group shots very well, in those cases all people are roughly the
same distance from the camera anyway so there’s no great benefit.

Here’s how to use it: