Registering People to Prioritize

Registering Faces
Changing or Removing the Priority of Registered People
Enabling Detection of Registered People's Faces
Clearing All Registered People
Saving and Loading Registered Data

You can register people on the camera to have the camera attempt to detect their faces and prioritize focusing, brightness, and color tone for them when you shoot. To register a face, you can take a picture of someone, or you can use an image on the card.

Caution

The camera stores face images and related information registered using this feature. Delete all registered information before disposing of the camera or transferring ownership.
When using this feature, be aware of the need to protect personal information and comply with privacy regulations, as by asking people for their consent before registering their information. Canon cannot be held liable for any personal information issues arising from use of this feature.

Registering Faces

Registering people by taking their picture

Select [: Register people priority] (, ).
Select [Photograph people and register].
Aim the frame over the face of a person to register, then take their picture.
- Shoot under ample light with the subject facing you.
- Ask subjects to pose with a natural facial expression before you shoot.
- For best results, ask subjects to take off any hats, masks, sunglasses, or other coverings before you take their picture.
- It may improve detection accuracy to register faces immediately before you will shoot.
- Under these shooting conditions, detection may be less accurate, and it may not be possible to register faces.
  - Faces are too small, relative to the frame
  - Faces are partially shaded
  - Faces are partially hidden
  - Faces are displayed on a computer or smartphone screen
Select [OK].
- The image displayed may look different from how you composed the shot in step 3, but this will not affect detection accuracy.

Registering people from images on the card

JPEG or HEIF images can be used. Process any RAW images you will use into JPEGs or HEIFs before saving them to the card.

Caution

With the following images, detection may be less accurate, and it may not be possible to register faces.
- Faces are partially hidden
- Faces are partially shaded
- Faces are displayed on a computer or smartphone screen

Note

For best results, make sure that faces in the images meet these guidelines.
- Well lit and facing you
- Not wearing any hats, masks, sunglasses, or other coverings
- Natural facial expression
- Faces are not too small or large relative to the screen

Select [Reg. people from image on card].
Switch to playback.
- Press .
Select a face.
- For pictures that show more than one person, you can use the dials or to move the orange frame over the face to register.
- Press .
Select [OK].
- After the following screen appears, you can register another person's face.

Display when registered faces are detected

A white frame with [ Face detected ] appears on any registered faces that are detected on the shooting screen. Note that [] is not displayed when One-Shot AF or Servo AF is used.

Caution

Detection may be less accurate under these conditions.
- Subjects are not directly facing you
- Faces are too light or dark
- Faces are too small or large relative to the screen
- Subjects have a much different facial expression from the one in registered images
- Subjects are moving too much
- Faces are covered by a hat, mask, sunglasses, or other objects
- Subject faces look much different from how they look in registered images
Unregistered people may be mistakenly detected as registered people whom they resemble.
If faces of registered people are not detected, or if detection is not accurate, try clearing the registered information and registering it again.

Note

When [: Subject to detect] is set to an option other than [People], priority is given to the subject specified in that setting.

Changing or Removing the Priority of Registered People

You can change detection priority by rearranging registered people. You can also remove registered people.

Changing detection priority

Select [Change/del. priority of reg. people].
Select the face of a registered person.
- Select with the dials or , then press .
Change the priority.
- Move with the dials or , then press .
- When finished changing priority, press the button.

Removing registered people

Select the face of a registered person.
- Select with the dials or , then press .
Press the button.
Select [OK].
- Press the button to exit.

Enabling Detection of Registered People's Faces

Select [Register people priority].
Select [Enable].

Clearing All Registered People

Delete all registered information before disposing of the camera or transferring ownership.

Select [Delete all registered people].
Press .
Select [OK].
- Press .

Note

Performing [Factory reset] in [: Reset camera] also clears the information for all registered people.

Saving and Loading Registered Data

Registered face data can be saved to a card. Registered data on a card can be used with other EOS R5 Mark II or EOS R1 cameras. You can also use registered data from other EOS R5 Mark II or EOS R1 cameras.

Select [Save/load registered data on card].
Select [Save registration data on card].
- Select [Save registration data on card] to save the camera's registered data to the card.
- To rename the registered data file before saving it, press the button on the following screen.
- To load registered data from the card and overwrite existing data on the camera, select [Load from card (overwrite)]. Any existing registered data on the camera is deleted.
- To add registered data from the card to the camera, select [Load from card (add)]. No existing registered data on the camera is deleted.
  - Registered data is loaded starting from the person with the highest priority.
  - Once the camera is full of registered data, no more data is loaded.