On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Miserere <miser...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17 May 2011 12:27, Scott Loveless <sdlovel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Steven Desjardins <drd1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujifilmx100/ >>> >>> They were clearly exasperated with the combination of wonderful camera >>> and stupid flaws. >> >> They listed "No face detection AF system" as a Con. Is this really a >> selling point with serious photographers? > > I am not a soccer mum and I love face detection. > > Maybe I'm not a serious photographer, though :-) Here's why I love > it: As a street shooter, I'm photographing people most of the time; I > usually have a short time to get correct focus and I don't like AF'ing > with the center point then recomposing, so I end up using other AF > points with varying success. With face-detection on a contrast-detect > AF system I can compose my shot how I want it and the AF will focus on > the person's face, wherever it may be in the frame. Not only does this > give me more creative freedom when framing a shot (e.g., I can shoot > from the hip or above my head without seeing the screen and my > subject's face will be in focus), it also gives me more accurate > focusing (we all know the perils of focus-and-recompose at wide > apertures).
I'll buy that. A while back we gave the Megan an Optio WS80 or some such. I didn't even realize it had face detection until she turned it on. Every once in a while I'll turn it on and see if it will focus on doll's faces, people on the TV (it will), drawings, etc. It's amusing, but I never really considered using it for the act of taking pictures. I imagine that most people put the damn thing on a tripod and use face detection for family portraits - when everyone is standing still. I'm going to swipe Megan's camera one of these days and try it on the street. > Maybe *I* am the wanker because I can't be a man and shoot like HCB did :-) I hear there's a questionnaire. :-) -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ __o _'\<,_ (*)/ (*) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
