Sony NEX-3N α Handbook - Page 70

Table of contents Sample photo Menu Tracking Focus Continuously track a moving subject. 1 MENU t [Camera] t [Tracking Focus]. A target frame appears. 2 Align the target frame with the subject to be tracked, and select OK. The camera starts tracking the subject. To cancel the tracking feature, select . 3 Press the shutter button fully down. Target frame Notes • Tracking may be difficult in the following situations: - The subject is moving too quickly. - The subject is too small, or too large. - The contrast between the subject and the background is poor. - It is dark. - The ambient light changes. • When [Tracking Focus] is activated, the custom setting of soft key B is invalid. • You cannot use [Tracking Focus] with the following functions: - [Hand-held Twilight], [Anti Motion Blur] in [Scene Selection] - [Sweep Panorama] - [Manual Focus] - The zoom feature of the camera z Tracking the face you want to shoot The camera stops tracking a subject when the subject moves off of the screen. When [Face Detection] is set to [On] and the subject to be tracked is a face, if the face disappears from the screen while the camera is tracking, and then returns to the screen, the camera focuses on that face again. • If you trigger [Smile Shutter] while tracking a face, the face becomes the target of the smile detection feature. • If you set a face as a target, the camera tracks the body when the face is not visible on the LCD screen. You can set whether to preferentially-track a certain face or not using [Face Priority Tracking] (page 127). Index 70GB