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300 “Custom” (Gear icon) Menu Settings

 First, invoke MENU  6  Face Registration  New
Registration
 The camera presents you with a small square. Fill that square with the
face of your choice and take the picture. (Figure 6-19.) You can even
take a picture of a picture - you don’t need the person actually there.
Hit OK each time you’re prompted.
 Now make sure MENU  7  Smile / Face Detect. is set to ON
(Regist. Faces).
That’s it! From now on, when you start composing your shot, any
recognized face will get focusing priority.
You can register up to 8 different
people. And if no registered
faces are recognized, then the
camera will revert to just
focusing on any old face it sees.
This feature won’t work on pets,
and for maximum effectiveness
you should use good light when
taking your classic head shot.

(In other words, the more detail
the camera has, the better job it Figure 6-20: You can re-shuffle the
will do recognizing the person in registered faces to tell the camera
the future.) which face has priority.

Want to take it a step further? If you have a favorite child, you can
program the camera to favor that child in case it recognizes both your
favorite and non-favorite child in the same picture.  Just register both
faces in the camera and then use the MENU  6  Face Registration
 Order Exchanging function to tell the camera which face to favor
(Figure 6-20). Just call it up, select a face, and then choose which priority
level you want.

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