[Leica] Blink!

[dumpx at mac.com (Brian Downie)]

And what next I wonder - the camera only taking shots when it decides  
that the result will be compositionally correct.....

A few more years and we won't need the photographer.

On 09 Feb 2008, at 3:26 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> Remember the old days when you were shooting a picture of somebody  
> on the
> sidewalk and people would  reverently stop and wait so as to not  
> ruin your
> picture?
> Bet you hardly happens that that doesn't happen any more!
> That's because they know you're shooting digital anyway;
> And your not going to waste 75 cents if they get  between you and your
> object subject of picture taking interest. Digital is free. You can  
> just
> shoot another one. Till you get it right.
> And you can check it and see if they blinked if you know how to  
> zoom in on
> the screen in the back. And if they did then you keep shooting till  
> you get
> one with their eyes open.
>
> Well we have face recognition so we should have anticipated the  
> next step
> but I didn't.
> Blink recognition.
> The camera knows of your darned eyes are closed.
> Or eye in the singular maybe I don't know. I guess not that many  
> people only
> blink one eye.
>
> So its pretty funny Nikon has just announced a camera which beeps  
> if they
> blink. So you can keep shooting till you get their eyes open.
>
> Now lets get one which beeps if YOU blink!
>
>
> What I want to know if it knows if you paint the outside of your  
> eyelids to
> look like an eye. A trick for people who want to sleep through a  
> long boring
> class on 3 hours sleep.
>
>
>
> http://www.usnews.com/blogs/daves-download/2008/2/7/nikon-camera- 
> warns-if-so
> meone-blinks.html
>
> Mark William Rabiner
> markrabiner.com
>
>
>
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