Auto-Photographer
As read today in Dave Beckerman's New York Photography Blog:
"Tokyo - Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce an exciting new technology that makes it easier to take high-quality, sharply focused portraits. Called Face-priority AF (Autofocus), this technology is an industry first and will be initially available on the new COOLPIX 7900, the COOLPIX 5900 and the COOLPIX 7600 compact digital cameras.
Franko Furkunholder, the spokesman for Nikon has announced that they are also at work on several new features such as: rule-of-thirds, leveling, tilting, and automatic expression evaluation (AEE). This last feature will not only detect a person's face but will be able to judge whether they have the expression that you want: smile mode, pensive mode, and sexy mode are currently in beta testing.
One additional feature will be a stylus touch screen enabling on the back of the camera to allow potential subjects to sign their release on the camera itself."
Sigh.
Where is is going to stop? I mean - the face priority AF doesn't sound half-bad, but "automatic expression evaluation"? Come on...
If you're too lazy (or too blind) not to know what the hell you're looking at in your view finder, you don't deserve to even be holding a camera.
As far as collecting signatures on your screen goes - I can see the whole of the privacy-protection community rise up in protest... and justifiedly so. It's about as stupid of an idea as I've ever encountered (ever heard of ... paper?). Leave it to Nikon ...
"Tokyo - Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce an exciting new technology that makes it easier to take high-quality, sharply focused portraits. Called Face-priority AF (Autofocus), this technology is an industry first and will be initially available on the new COOLPIX 7900, the COOLPIX 5900 and the COOLPIX 7600 compact digital cameras.
Franko Furkunholder, the spokesman for Nikon has announced that they are also at work on several new features such as: rule-of-thirds, leveling, tilting, and automatic expression evaluation (AEE). This last feature will not only detect a person's face but will be able to judge whether they have the expression that you want: smile mode, pensive mode, and sexy mode are currently in beta testing.
One additional feature will be a stylus touch screen enabling on the back of the camera to allow potential subjects to sign their release on the camera itself."
Sigh.
Where is is going to stop? I mean - the face priority AF doesn't sound half-bad, but "automatic expression evaluation"? Come on...
If you're too lazy (or too blind) not to know what the hell you're looking at in your view finder, you don't deserve to even be holding a camera.
As far as collecting signatures on your screen goes - I can see the whole of the privacy-protection community rise up in protest... and justifiedly so. It's about as stupid of an idea as I've ever encountered (ever heard of ... paper?). Leave it to Nikon ...
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