My camera (an ever-so-kind collective study abroad gift from my friends at home) has the automatic face-finding function on it. If you aren't familiar with what this is, it's basically a setting on many new digital cameras that has the ability to "find" human faces in the shot you're about to take and frame them in a tiny box on the camera screen. Then, when you take the picture, the camera auto-focuses on these specific spots so that it produces the best clarity of the faces in the photo.
Sometimes, I'm not even taking a picture of anyone, but the face-finder squares on my camera will flicker and show up here and there for a very brief moment. Sometimes, it's interesting to see in what sort of things the camera finds faces. Buildings, doorway signs, a jar, a window, the corner of an origami piece, a cluster of bikes leaning against a wall, a rumpled jacket, an escalator.
Sometimes, just for fun, I pretend that a face really did show up, only too subtle for the human eye, but maybe just brief and significant enough for a digital camera to pick up an elusive wink in the side of an old, gnarled tree by the bank of the Danube.
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less interesting, but slightly useful...it'll pick up dog faces too. Zoom right in on them. At least, my dad's digital camera does.
How odd. I'd be curious to know what sort of criteria are necessary to spot the face. Even in dogs.
I'm not entirely sure why, but it does it best for jenny :D
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