Face Recognition - is it useful?

There is a 15-30 minute Kodak advertisement on Youtube.com
currently going the rounds. I found it extremely boring
so I'm not going to dignify it with a URL.

One of the things the video touted was face recognition software.
Fuji has this in the F30 upgrade (can't remember model number)
so it must be in other digital cameras.

Has anybody seen, or can anyone offer, comparisons of portraits
with and without the feature enabled?

"Bill Tuthill" wrote in message
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There is a 15-30 minute Kodak advertisement on Youtube.com
currently going the rounds. I found it extremely boring
so I'm not going to dignify it with a URL.

One of the things the video touted was face recognition software.
Fuji has this in the F30 upgrade (can't remember model number)
so it must be in other digital cameras.

Has anybody seen, or can anyone offer, comparisons of portraits
with and without the feature enabled?


Hi.

It might be of some use at sometime, if it actually works.

If I was taking a portrait, I think I would be aware of that fact, and would
choose the Camera settings to produce the effect I wanted.

Roy G

Roy G

Bill Tuthill wrote:
There is a 15-30 minute Kodak advertisement on Youtube.com
currently going the rounds. I found it extremely boring
so I'm not going to dignify it with a URL.

One of the things the video touted was face recognition software.
Fuji has this in the F30 upgrade (can't remember model number)
so it must be in other digital cameras.

Has anybody seen, or can anyone offer, comparisons of portraits
with and without the feature enabled?


Sounds good to me. Faces are the subject of many a photo, so why not
set the focal length and exposure to get them right? (Is that what they
do?) I know how to use my manual controls, but I'm not above using auto
when it suffices.

timeOday wrote:
Bill Tuthill wrote:
There is a 15-30 minute Kodak advertisement on Youtube.com
currently going the rounds. I found it extremely boring
so I'm not going to dignify it with a URL.

One of the things the video touted was face recognition software.
Fuji has this in the F30 upgrade (can't remember model number)
so it must be in other digital cameras.

Has anybody seen, or can anyone offer, comparisons of portraits
with and without the feature enabled?


Sounds good to me. Faces are the subject of many a photo, so why not
set the focal length and exposure to get them right? (Is that what they
do?) I know how to use my manual controls, but I'm not above using auto
when it suffices.

My impression is that face recognition was more important in setting
auto focus, then exposure, but I doubt it zooms the damn lens.
--
John McWilliams

I thought it only adjusted contrast, saturation, etc. for the best portrait
picture and otherwise had not other effect?

ljc


"John McWilliams" wrote in message
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timeOday wrote:
Bill Tuthill wrote:
There is a 15-30 minute Kodak advertisement on Youtube.com
currently going the rounds. I found it extremely boring
so I'm not going to dignify it with a URL.

One of the things the video touted was face recognition software.
Fuji has this in the F30 upgrade (can't remember model number)
so it must be in other digital cameras.

Has anybody seen, or can anyone offer, comparisons of portraits
with and without the feature enabled?


Sounds good to me. Faces are the subject of many a photo, so why not set
the focal length and exposure to get them right? (Is that what they do?)
I know how to use my manual controls, but I'm not above using auto when
it suffices.

My impression is that face recognition was more important in setting auto
focus, then exposure, but I doubt it zooms the damn lens.
--
John McWilliams

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 20:14:28 -0800, Little Juice Coupe wrote
(in article ):

I thought it only adjusted contrast, saturation, etc. for the best portrait
picture and otherwise had not other effect?


The one on my Nikon Coolpix 7900 will work with up to three faces in a
picture. When you depress the shutter half way it chooses the closest one and
surrounds it with a red square in the LCD. It adjusts focus and exposure for
that face. I had forgotten that the camera had that feature when I wrote my
other post on this thread, which shows you how often I use it for portraits.
No doubt there have been improvements in face recognition software since the
7900 was introduced.

Anyway, it does work quite well on faces up from full face to 3/4.

John McWilliams wrote:
timeOday wrote:
Bill Tuthill wrote:
There is a 15-30 minute Kodak advertisement on Youtube.com
currently going the rounds. I found it extremely boring
so I'm not going to dignify it with a URL.

One of the things the video touted was face recognition software.
Fuji has this in the F30 upgrade (can't remember model number)
so it must be in other digital cameras.

Has anybody seen, or can anyone offer, comparisons of portraits
with and without the feature enabled?


Sounds good to me. Faces are the subject of many a photo, so why not
set the focal length and exposure to get them right? (Is that what
they do?) I know how to use my manual controls, but I'm not above
using auto when it suffices.

My impression is that face recognition was more important in setting
auto focus, then exposure, but I doubt it zooms the damn lens.

My bad, I meant focal plane (not length), as in, focusing the camera.

John McWilliams wrote:
timeOday wrote:
Bill Tuthill wrote:
There is a 15-30 minute Kodak advertisement on Youtube.com
currently going the rounds. I found it extremely boring
so I'm not going to dignify it with a URL.

One of the things the video touted was face recognition software.
Fuji has this in the F30 upgrade (can't remember model number)
so it must be in other digital cameras.

Has anybody seen, or can anyone offer, comparisons of portraits
with and without the feature enabled?


Sounds good to me. Faces are the subject of many a photo, so why not
set the focal length and exposure to get them right? (Is that what
they do?) I know how to use my manual controls, but I'm not above
using auto when it suffices.

My impression is that face recognition was more important in setting
auto focus, then exposure, but I doubt it zooms the damn lens.


You have obviously never used a Minolta 7xi with a power zoom lens. Took
me some time to find out how to stop it from zooming to some arbitrary
focal length every time I woke it up.

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timeOday wrote:


Sounds good to me. Faces are the subject of many a photo, so why not
set the focal length and exposure to get them right? (Is that what they
do?) I know how to use my manual controls, but I'm not above using auto
when it suffices.

Hell with features like these you can let the camera go to the shot and
take the pictures by it self.


Talk about frickin lazy.

--
Would thou choose to meet a rat eating dragon, or
a dragon, eating rat? The answer of: I am somewhere
in the middle. "Me who is part taoist and part Christian".

timeOday wrote:

Sounds good to me. Faces are the subject of many a photo, so why not
set the focal length and exposure to get them right? (Is that what they
do?) I know how to use my manual controls, but I'm not above using auto
when it suffices.

Agreed. Since posting, I discovered that many Nikon digicams have it also.
However I could not find any "with and without" samples.