Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/29

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Subject: [Leica] Face recognition
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Fri Sep 29 14:44:52 2006
References: <092920062032.11389.451D82C2000E935100002C7D2213539653040C02019C990E04@comcast.net> <F0B296EB-E805-474E-A5B4-2AB159B6BC4D@pandora.be>

It probably only works on light reflected from a toothy smile - no more 
depressing pictures :-)
Douglas

Philippe Orlent wrote:

> An oval form with rougly 4 darker zones in it at pretty fixed  
> distances one from another? Can't be that difficult...
>
>
>
> Op 29-sep-06, om 22:32 heeft mcyclwritr@comcast.net het volgende  
> geschreven:
>
>>> From DP Review's Photokina 2006 blurb on Canon.
>>
>>
>> "Canon is making a lot of noise about its new face detection AF/AE  
>> system (we can confirm it works well with beautiful models, not yet  
>> sure how it works with uglier faces)..."
>>
>> Hmm...will there be selectable AE settings for northern European  
>> white types, third-world brown types (with apologies to Howard  
>> Hunter), Pacific Islanders, deep-black Africans, high-yellow North  
>> Americans, et al? So many peoples. So many reflectance factors.  
>> It'll be fun to see how the PC ninnies react to racial profiling in  
>> a photographic context.
>>
>> Chris Lawson
>>
>>
>>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
>> From: Richard <richard-lists@imagecraft.com>
>>
>>> "... the Leica M8 appears to be everything we want it to be..."
>>> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/photokina/leica-report.shtml
>>>
>>> Save those pennies! You only need 500,000 of them!
>>>
>>> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly,  
>>> please
>>> use richard at imagecraft.com)
>>>
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