On Dec 19, 2007 2:41 PM, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > frank theriault wrote: > > >could I please have a brief primer on Face Recognition and why > >in the world I might want it? > > I believe it's basically an automatic autofocus-point-selection system. > As you've no doubt found, sometimes it's difficult to get the autofocus > to focus on what *you* want, rather than what the camera wants. For > most family snapshooters, though, the desired focus point is most often > a person's face, so if the camera can recognize the difference between > a human face and other objects in the scene, there's a pretty good > chance that it's found an appropriate object on which to focus. > > I'd guess it's more appropriate for point-n-shoot cameras than SLR's, > though I haven't tried it myself. > > As for why you (or I) would want it, I can't think of anything.
Focus? What's that? cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
