Kenneth Waller wrote: > 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
Er, if you bought any Pentax DSLR other than the original D, then I think you do...... > > ----- 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
