Intelligent Auto Scene Detection

As part of the Intelligent Auto Mode, the camera will quickly evaluate the scene and attempt to assign it to a category from the following list: i-Portrait, i-Baby, i-Nighttime Portrait, i-Scenery, i-Nighttime Scenery, i-Low Light, i-Macro, and i-Sunset.

This is significant, because this is more than automatic exposure—it is automatic exposure biased to provide the best settings for a particular subject. Once determined, the camera displays the selected category’s icon in the lower-left corner of the display screen in blue for 2 seconds and then changes its color to red.

There are times when the camera’s software is unable to determine a specific category and the iA icon is displayed on the screen with the camera choosing a generic set of settings.

In addition, the software will save the category with the picture or video so you can later select it based on category for printing or playback purposes. As you can see there are fewer available categories when taking videos. Nighttime scenarios fall into the i-Low Light category. So nighttime categories for portraits and scenery will be assigned the i-Low Light category for videos.

Each of the Intelligent Auto Mode categories has predefined camera settings to optimize the resulting picture or video per the software’s interpretation. For example, the camera is capable of detecting when there is a human face in the image by looking for two eyes, a nose, and a mouth at typical human proportions and location. This combination enables the camera’s software to differentiate between a human face and the person’s pet.

When a human face is identified, the camera’s intelligent software will assign the appropriate scene category depending on the ambient light intensity and whether you’re taking a picture or a video.

In cases, the focus and exposure is automatically set for the face. When you’re taking pictures, if FACE RECOG. = [ON], the software will also check to see if the face has been registered.