Video 61To select the main subjectIf there is more than one person in the picture, the camcorder will auto-matically select one person it determines is the main subject. The mainsubject is indicated by a white face detection frame and the camcorderwill optimize the settings for that person. Other faces will have grayframes.Select ( ) a different faceto optimize the camcorder’ssettings for that person.NOTES• The camcorder may mistakenly detect the faces of non-human sub-jects. In such case, turn face detection off.• In certain cases, faces may not be detected correctly. Typical examplesinclude:- Faces extremely small, large, dark or bright in relation to the overallpicture.- Faces turned to the side, at a diagonal or partially hidden.• Face detection cannot be used when the shutter speed used is slowerthan 1/25 or when the digital zoom is activated at more than 80x zoom(dark blue area on the zoom bar).• When face detection is activated, the slowest shutter speed used by thecamcorder is 1/25.White BalanceThe white balance function helps you to accurately reproduce colorsunder different lighting conditions so that white objects will always looktruly white in your recordings.POINTS TO CHECK• Select a recording program other than the Special Scene recording pro-grams.Main subjectOperating modes:
