It's all a bunch of crap. Slimming filters, pet mode, child mode, face recognition, ear lobe adjustment - FEH!
Shel > [Original Message] > From: Kenneth Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Date: 9/25/2006 12:59:57 PM > Subject: Re: Face Detection Technology by Fuji > > 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
