Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/30

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Subject: [Leica] face-recognition software Lumix GH1
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:41:30 -0400
References: <C61F77AC.4D930%mark@rabinergroup.com>

The latest update on Mac's has a very similar feature that memorizes
whatever faces you want.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> Not just eye nose mouth configuration but "watch out its uncle Harry!".
>
> " This is not at all the same as the face *detection* feature in every
> camera on earth. The Lumix doesn't just recognize that something *is* a
> face; it actually tries to determine *whose* face it is. That way, it can
> give priority of focus and exposure to your own friends and family, even
> plucking them out of a crowd."
> That from David Pogue in an auto email thing I just got sent he'd done a
> thing on the camera in his regular internet column today or maybe it was
> the
> real newspaper.
>
>
> http://www.dpreview.com/news/0903/09030316lumixgh1handson.asp
>
> I do notice surprisingly the "LEICA" on the lens has been replaced by the
> word "LUMIX".
>
> Starts with an "L" but then falls about in the next 4 letters.
>
>
> Though could be just as LEICA as the LEICA on Panasonics other camera
> lenes.
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>
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-- 
Don
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Replies: Reply from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] face-recognition software Lumix GH1)
In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] face-recognition software Lumix GH1)