Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There you go, Douglas. The toothy smile is the answer. Thus, eliminating the problem of AE getting the proper exposure of white white faces as well as black black faces. There'll be a new icon on the dummy dial: Big-Ass Grin. -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@gmx.de> > 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) > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information