Canon XF705 Instruction Manual - Page 82

Adjusting the Focus 4 Select the desired option and then press SET. • (face priority) or (face-only AF) appears on the left of the screen. 5 Point the camcorder at the subject. 82 • All detected faces will have a face detection frame. The main subject will be indicated with a face detection frame with small arrows (white in AF mode, gray in MF mode). • During continuous AF, the camcorder will keep focusing on the main subject's face. • If you use face detection together with the tracking function (A 83), the camcorder will be able to track the selected main subject more reliably. • Push the joystick left/right to select a different person as the main subject. You can also touch another person on the LCD screen to use the tracking function (A 83). This is better if you want to track a subject when it is difficult to keep seeing their face. When you touch a subject on the LCD, the face detection frame will change to a white double frame £ (tracking frame). Options [Face Priority]: When there is no face detected, the camcorder focuses automatically according to the AF mode currently selected. [Face Only]: When there is no face detected, the camcorder locks the focus. Face AF operation by AF mode [v # Camera Setup] > [AF Mode] and focus operation [Continuous] (autofocus), [AF-Boosted MF] within the automatic adjustment range [AF-Boosted MF] within the manual adjustment range (yellow AF frame) [v $ Camera Setup] > [Face AF] [Face Priority] [Face Only] Face detected No face detected Face detected No face detected Focus on the detected face Focus on the subject inside the AF frame Focus on the detected face Manual focus Manual focus NOTES • In certain cases, faces may not be detected correctly. Typical examples include: - Faces extremely small, large, dark or bright in relation to the overall picture. - Faces that are turned to the side, at a diagonal, partially hidden or upside-down. • Face detection cannot be used in the following cases: - When the shutter speed used is slower than 1/30 (59.94 Hz recordings)* or 1/25 (50.00 Hz recordings). * Slower than 1/24 when the frame rate is set to 23.98P. - When slow motion recording is activated. - When > [v % Camera Setup] > [Digital Zoom] is set to [Digital 300x] and the zoom ratio exceeds 60x. - When > [v % Camera Setup] > [Digital Zoom] is set to [Tele-converter 6.0x]. - When infrared recording is activated. • The camcorder may mistakenly detect the faces of non-human subjects. In such case, turn face detection off. • If you set an assignable button to [Face Det. and Tracking] (A 119), you can press the button to turn the function on and off. If you set an assignable button to [Face AF], you can press the button to toggle between the face detection options.