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36 The A77 II in a Nutshell

1.2.8 EYE AF
Sony has now taken Face Detection
one step further – if the camera can
recognize a face (and enable only the
AF points in front of that face), it
stands to reason that the camera can
also recognize an eye on that face, and
then enable only the AF point on top
of the eye.

This mimics what portrait
photographers have been doing since
the beginning of photography, except
you no longer have to spot focus -
recompose – shoot. The camera does
the right thing for you.
Like many features of this camera,
Eye AF is not available in the menus;
you can only access it if you assign it Figure 1-13: Eye AF takes face
to a button first. It can only be used detection one step further, zeroing
when your focus mode is set to AF-S in on just the eyes. This picture also
and it might be handiest when shows off the utility of the twist-
shooting portraits with a long lens. and-flip display, since I didn't have
to lie down on the floor to take this
1.2.9 3 REMOTE METHODS shot. 
Back in the olden days, the two time-honored methods of controlling your
camera remotely were either wired (called a “cable release”) or via an
Infrared remote. The A77 II can still accept these.

Want more options? Here are two new ones: The ability to control your
camera with your Wi-Fi-equipped smartphone (discussed in detail in
Chapter 4), and a new plug-in remote which does the same job as the
traditional cable release except it connects through the camera’s USB port.
It’s called the RM-VPR1 (Figure 1-14.) The RM-VPR1 was developed for
smaller cameras like the RX-100 series where there’s no room to put for
another physical connector.

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