In a related dumb down item, last night on a local station there was a 5 minute segment on a new HP digital P+S that had a slimming filter. Fortunately a local Photoshop guru explained it fairly well - the camera was compressing the image @ the center to make the subject, also in the center, appear "thinner". When the subject wasn't in the center of the image, it "thinned/shrunk" what was. I guess if it sells the camera so what - we don't have to buy it.
Kenneth Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 3:32 PM Subject: Re: Face Detection Technology by Fuji > How is that any faster/better than using a zoom lens? What are the > chances > of focus changing while the photog implements the detection mode, the > image > comes up on the screen, the photog checks image, recomposes, makes the > shot? Am I missing something here, and if so, what is it that I'm > overlooking? > > Shel > > > >> [Original Message] >> From: Bob Shell > >> P. J. Alling wrote: >> >> > It's not needed. But they have the software to implement it >> > somewhere, it's probably a fast efficient algorithm, so they >> > added it to the camera to get a bullet point no one else has, >> > rather than design in something actually useful. >> >> I think it could be very useful when shooting events and needing to >> verify that faces are in focus quickly. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
