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Panasonic Launches Beautifying Camera
The new Panasonic LUMIX FX77 camera can take the red out of your eyes and add it to your lips and cheeks. Released last Friday, the camera has a "beauty re-touch" feature that can whiten your teeth, change the size of your eyes, and can apply rouge, lipstick, or eye shadow. From the article: "There has been huge customer demand for such a product, said Akiko Enoki, a Panasonic project manager in charge of developing the camera. 'According to data we've acquired, around 50 percent of our digital camera clients are not satisfied with the way their faces look in a photograph,' she said. 'So we came up with the idea so our clients can fix parts they don't like about their faces after they've taken the picture.'"
Maybe it's Photoshop
Wow! A camera with a built in "beer glasses" circuit!
Makes criminals darker
Makes political figures evil looking,
Give women huge racks.
Adds tentacles to any pictures of a Japanese person,
When taking a picture of Soviet Russia, it shows you.
Any picture taken of Natalie Portman shoes her petrified and covered in hot grits.
When taking a picture of a Sony products, it roots itself.
When taking a pictures of Anyone at valve, it shows them wearing a hat.
When taking a picture of Micheal Bay, it shows explosion in the background.
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In pictures, the beginning of our century may be looked back on as the time when everyone was happy (smile detection) and people had perfect looks (retouch).
We look at old photos of frozen lakes and giant crowds and consider them accurate. Tho, it turns out people took photos of the lake being frozen or the crowded streets because it was exceptional rather than that being the norm.
According to data we've acquired, around 50 percent of our digital camera clients are not satisfied with the way their faces look in a photograph, so we came up with the idea so our clients can fix parts they don't like about their faces after they've taken the picture.
Take it from a professional photographer, 90% of the time, the angle and lighting are all that matter between a good and a bad photo.
8% is mistakes and blemishes that can be corrected in Photoshop/Corel with a bit of cloning (probably going to be bloody hard to do it on a camera, even with a properly sized LCD. The mouse is simply necessary here.), Brightness-Contrast-Intensity modding, gamma, and a few other simple steps.
The last 2% are those who are incredibly ugly, and can't be helped...
Anyway, it's pointless for me: I won't buy a new camera, since my Canon 300D is still in perfect order, this feature will probably be incorporated into amateur units, and I can get Photoshop for free. ;)
Hyperbole: I use it liberally!
The camera can fix ugliness up to 2 anti-milliHelens (in other words, the amount of ugliness required to send 2 ships' crews running in terror).
I am officially gone from
An article about a "beauty re-touch" function without pictures? How useless is that!
I found two examples on the internets and the most obvious difference is a blurring/smoothing filter applied to the regions with skin tones. I'm not convinced this makes anyone more beautiful (the womans white teeth look a bit creepy).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/workshop/5432481125/
http://panasonic.net/avc/lumix/compact/fx78_fx77/img/touch/retouch_image.jpg
I think I still prefer the brown-paper-bag-over-the-head approach for making people beautiful. That, or beer.
OK... this is totally going to sound racist: but does it work on black people?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DT3tQqgRM
I'm dead serious, there are cameras and software that have problems with this.