User manual CANON POWERSHOT A2000 IS

[. . . ] Camera User Guide ENGLISH Checking the Package Contents Check if the following items are included in your camera package. If anything is missing, contact the retailer where you purchased the camera. Camera AA-size Alkaline Batteries (x2) Memory Card (32MB) Interface Cable IFC-400PCU AV Cable AVC-DC400 Wrist Strap WS-DC5 Canon Digital Camera Solution Disk Canon Warranty System Booklet Getting Started Guide Canon Digital Camera Manuals Disk · You can use the included memory card to try out your new camera and take some test shots. Microsoft Word Viewer 2003 can be installed to view Word manuals (Middle East only). If this software is not installed on your computer, access the following web site to download the software: http://www. adobe. com (in the case of PDF) http://www. microsoft. com/downloads/ (in the case of Word format). 2 Conventions Used in this Guide · Language that displays on the screen appears inside [ ]. [. . . ] For other shooting modes refer to the Functions Available in Each Shooting Mode section (p. 134). 79 Changing the AF Frame You can change the AF (Auto Focus) mode to take the shots you want. Select [AF Frame]. Press the · button and select the 4 tab. Press the op buttons to select [AF Frame]. Make the setting. Press the qr buttons to select a setting. Face Detect · Recognizes people's faces and focuses, adjusts exposure (evaluative metering only) and white balance ( only) for shooting. · When the camera is pointed at subjects, a white frame appears on the face the camera judges to be the main subject, and gray frames (max. When the shutter button is pressed halfway, up to 9 green frames will appear on faces the camera focuses on. · If a face is not detected and only gray frames (no white frame) appear, the setting will change to [AiAF]. · Examples of faces that cannot be detected: · Subjects that are far away or extremely close. · Faces turned to the side or at a diagonal, or faces with a portion hidden. · The camera may mistakenly identify non-human subjects as a face. · If the camera cannot focus when you press the shutter button halfway, the AF frame will not appear. 80 Changing the AF Frame AiAF The camera automatically selects among 9 AF frames to focus with. If the camera cannot focus when you press the shutter button halfway, the AF frame will not appear. Center The AF frame will be fixed to the center. This is effective for focusing on a specific point. You can reduce the AF frame size Press the · button, select the 4 tab, then select the [AF Frame Size] menu item and the [Small] option. · The setting is configured to [Normal] when the digital zoom or digital teleconverter is used. If the camera cannot focus when you press the shutter button halfway, the AF frame will turn yellow. 81 Checking the Focus and People's Expressions (AF-Point Zoom) You can zoom the display of the AF frame to check focus when shooting. When you want to capture people's expressions, set [AF Frame] (p. When you want to check the focus while shooting in Macro mode, set [AF Frame] to [Center]. Select [AF-Point Zoom]. Press the · button and select the 4 tab. Press the op buttons to select [AF-Point Zoom]. Accept the setting. Press the qr buttons to select [On], then press the · button. Check the focus. Press the shutter button halfway to check the focus. If the AF frame is set to [Face Detect], the face that the camera determined as the main subject is displayed enlarged. If the AF frame is set to [Center], the center of the image is displayed enlarged. Shoot. Press the shutter button fully. In the following cases the focus point will not display magnified: · AF frame is set to [AiAF]. · When [Face Detect] is selected, but no face is detected, or when the face is too large relative to the entire screen. · When using the digital zoom. · When the image is being displayed on a TV screen. 82 0 Selecting the Face to Focus On (Face Select and Track) You can select a chosen face to focus on and then shoot. Face Frame Set the Face Select mode. Point the camera towards the face and press the 0 button. The Face Select mode will activate and a white face frame ( ) will display around the face the camera will focus on. Even if the subject moves, the frame will follow the subject within a certain range. Select a face you wish to focus on. Press the 0 button, and a face frame will move to the face you wish to focus on. If the frame has moved to all detected faces, the Face Select mode will be canceled. Holding down the 0 button will display face frames (up to 35) of all the detected faces (green: the face the camera will focus on, white: detected faces). Shoot. Press the shutter button halfway. The face frame of the focused face will change into and appears in green. Press the shutter button all the way to shoot. In the following cases, the Face Select mode will be canceled. · When turning the power off and back on or changing the shooting mode. [. . . ] Still images Large: 3648 x 2736 pixels Medium 1: 2816 x 2112 pixels Medium 2: 2272 x 1704 pixels Medium 3: 1600 x 1200 pixels Small: 640 x 480 pixels Date Stamp: 1600 x 1200 pixels Widescreen: 3648 x 2048 pixels Standard: 640 x 480 pixels (30 frames/ Movies: sec. ), 640 x 480 pixels (30 frames/sec. LP), 320 x 240 pixels (30 frames/sec. ) Compact: 160 x 120 pixels (15 frames/ sec. ) Sound (Movie, Sound Memo) . Single/Index/Magnification/Easy/Slide Show/My Category/Red-Eye Correction/Resize/Sound Memo/ Protect/Rotate/Focus Check/Jump/Movie Playback Direct Print . PictBridge compliant, and Canon Direct Print and Bubble Jet Direct compatible Interface . [. . . ]