37Functions ( ) Self PortraitÄ Selectable modes: Auto, Program, DIS, Photo Help Guide,Beauty Shot, Portrait, Beach & Snow1. For self-filming, set the camera lenstowards the face of the object. Itautomatically detects the face of theobject, and emits a guiding sound.2. Start filming by pressing the shutterbutton. When locating the face in the center of the screen, it repeatedlyemits a faster sound unlike the sounds that are emitted whenthe face is not in the center. The guiding sound can be set using the sound settingmenu. (See p.46) This function can detect up to 10 persons. When the camera recognises many people at the sametime, it will focus on the nearest person. The Digital zoom is not activated in this mode. When the camera detects a target face, the white colourfocus frame will be displayed over the target face and thegrey colour focus frame appears over the remaining faces.Press the shutter button halfway down to focus on the faceand the white focus frame turns green. Return to previous AF mode if face detection was failure. In some conditions this function cannot work properly.- When a person wears dark glasses or some part of theface is hidden.- When the person being taken does not look at the camera.- Camera doesn't detect a face as the brightness is too darkor too bright.- The distance between the camera and object are far. The maximum available Face Detection range is 2.5m (Wide). The nearer the subject, the faster the camera can recognizethe subject. In [Beauty Shot], [Portrait], and [Children] mode, the[Face Detection] function setting is set to its default value.