The two areas that I can think of where this could be helpful is both are for point and shooters. The first is the fairly typical picture with two people in it where there is really no one in the center. What commonly happens is the camera user doesn't think twice about the autofocus - just points at the two people and presses the button. The camera ends up focusing on the background between the two people. My wife has taken plenty of these shots. The face recognition could perhaps detect the general area where a person is and direct the focus on that plane rather than the background. For a thinking photographer, this is not an issue, but for someone with no clue, it could be useful. The other use would be related to post processing in camera. There are a few cameras out that will attempt to remove redeye from the pic after being shot. As the flash on the P&S is so close to the lens, the odds of redeye are rather high. So the face detection could be used to figure out where the eyes would be and then better able to correct the redeye rather than just relying on color.
Note that both of these uses are for people using a P&S and without much clue how to control the camera. -- Best regards, Bruce Monday, September 25, 2006, 2:36:55 PM, you wrote: SB> So how does that help anything? I still don't get it. If you've made the SB> shot, you can see it on the LCD screen and know what you got. Where does SB> this new "feature" do anything different. I'm still not seeing how it SB> helps a thing. SB> How the hell can you reshoot a scene at an event after the fact. SB> Everything has changed. Unless, of course, this new feature stops time and SB> gets the subject to redo his/her facial expression. BTW, what's an event? SB> Some big arena thing, like a concert, a ball game, a child's birthday SB> party, mom and dad's fiftieth anniversary? They're all events of one sort SB> or another to my way of thinking. Is there some photographic definition of SB> "event" of which I'm unaware? SB> You've not convinced me that there's any reason for this feature. Just SB> more bull-pucky for the marketing department if you ask me, which no one SB> did. SB> Shel >> [Original Message] >> From: Bob Shell >> You verify focus, expression, etc., ***after*** taking the photo. It >> allows you to check it quickly on the spot so you can reshoot if >> it's not right. I can see it as being very valuable for event >> shooters, a big chunk of Fuji's market. >> >> Bob >> >> -- >> 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
