Face recognition

[Ignis Fatuus]

Looked at a compact camera. In the Face Recognition menu, it had these options, which seem close to witchcraft to an old-timer like me:

Favourites: not only can it recognise a face as such, and focus and expose for it - you can store images of the faces of your friends and family, and when it spots them in the picture it will preferentially focus and expose on them rather than on anybody else.

Smile: you can set it so that when one of those faces smiles, it will take a photo automatically.

Blink: you can set it so that if someone blinks while the photo is being taken, it will immediately take another.


Blimey, if that's what a £200 camera can do, what might the government be up to?

[OwlHoot]

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Blimey, if that's what a £200 camera can do, what might the government be up to?

They're probably still using ICL 1900 punched card readers for most things, seeing as how even the simplest Government IT project seems to end up costing about £100 billion.

[shaunbhoy]

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Blimey, if that's what a £200 camera can do, what might the government be up to?

They introduced a horrendously expensive CCTV system in Central London back in the early nineties that was set up with the express intention of capturing shots everytime Cherie Blair looked alluring.
It was decommissioned in 2010 and the pristine film sold on to China.

[xoggoth]

Cheap cameras seem to do it. I point mine at herd of cows and they all get little rectangles round their chops.