Canon rebel t2i where is face detection

By using this site, you agree to our use of cookies and our Privacy Policy. Register to forums Log in. Aug 14, 1. LIKES 0. Aug 14, 2. DMax82 wrote in post Hello all, I'm looking to upgrade my Rebel XS to the T2i, which seems to be going at a pretty fair price in the for sale section of this forum.

Amamba Amamba Goldmember. Aug 14, 3. Hard Drive Disk wrote in post It has face detection but only in live view, which focuses slow. Aug 14, 4. When [ Face Detection Live mode] is set:. With the same AF method as the Live mode, human faces are detected and focused. Have the target person face the camera. When a face is detected, the [ ] frame will appear over the face to be focused.

If multiple faces are detected, [ ] will be displayed. Press the shutter button halfway and the camera will focus the face covered by the [ ] frame. If a face cannot be detected, the AF point [ ] will be displayed and AF will be executed at the center. Notes when shooting in [ Face detection Live Mode]. If the focus is way off, face detection will not be possible. The face will then be detected and [ ] will be displayed. Face detection will not work if the face is very small or large in the picture, too bright or too dark, titled horizontally or diagonally, or partially hidden.

When [Quick mode] is set:. The dedicated AF sensor is used to focus in the same way as with viewfinder shooting. Although you can focus the desired area quickly, the Live View image will be interrupted momentarily during the AF operation.

The small boxes on the screen are the AF points, and the larger box is the magnifying frame. The settable functions will be highlighted in blue. Select the AF point. Aim the AF point over the subject and press the shutter button halfway. Keep the shutter pressed. The Live View mode lets you use the LCD monitor as a large viewfinder, and offers an exposure simulation option which displays the expected outcome of your chosen exposure settings.

In Movie mode, the live view feed cannot be disabled, and the same button instead acts to start or stop movie recording. The Canon T2i's Live View mode feature set is comprehensive, and the display offers a lot of information such as current settings, exposure, and composition aids see illustration below, courtesy of Canon USA. The Canon T2i groups several settings related to Live View shooting in a Live View function settings screen, which is somewhat confusingly located in Setup Menu 2, rather than where one might expect to find it in one of the Record menus.

Several options are duplicates of those in Movie Menu 2, so if they're changed in one menu, the equivalent variable will be changed on return to the other menu. A nice feature of Canon's Live View mode is that it doesn't immediately stop the live view feed when you entre the camera's menu system, or switch between operating modes.

Some rival cameras will immediately terminate the live view stream and drop the camera's mirror in either instance, causing unnecessary wear and tear on the mirror and shutter mechanisms if you were intending to immediately continue live view shooting. The Live View mode also includes a greatly abbreviated equivalent of the Quick Control menu screen that's available when shooting using the viewfinder, accessed using the rear-panel Quick Control button.

The T2i's Live View mode offers three autofocus modes, selected through the Live View function settings screen or Quick Control menu: "Quick mode," which employs the camera's dedicated phase-detection sensor, as it would when using the optical viewfinder, plus two contrast-detection autofocus types -- "Live mode" and "Face Detection Live mode" -- which both operate on data streamed from the image sensor itself.

Face Detection Live mode can detect multiple faces in the frame, but only selects and indicates one face on which the camera will set focus and exposure. The selected face can be changed by pressing the left and right arrow keys to jump through the detected faces in either direction. The contrast detection modes are slower than phase-detection focusing, but don't require the mirror briefly drop to redirect light to the phase-detection AF sensor, which interrupts the live view display in Quick mode.

The contrast detection modes can also be more accurate, and allow the AF point to be positioned anywhere within the image frame except for the extreme edges , rather than being limited to the T2i's nine fixed AF points. On the flip side, Quick mode AF can be noticeably faster, even when taking account of the time to cycle the mirror, especially when shooting in low-light or with low-contrast subjects.

Just press the Cross key buttons from side to side to make the box jump from one face to the other until you have selected the one that you want to focus on.

There is a complete chapter in your manual that is dedicated to using Live View mode. It can be found in your manual on pages