Re:Xerox scanners and photocopiers randomly alter numbers in...
by lostlogin on Sunday August 04, 2013 @02:14PM
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A very tech savvy friend bought a camera in Japan and after about a week or started delving into settings. He thought all the faces looked wrong. He found a setting that made the eyes bigger and rounder. It was subtle, but quite funny at the same time.
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Re:Xerox scanners and photocopiers randomly alter numbers in...
by hrktb on Sunday August 04, 2013 @08:04PM
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Most of the consumer compact cameras have a "purikura" setting or a "beauty" setting with special treatment for the skin, whiter eyes and whiter teeths, and eventually bigger eyes and smaller mouth (yes, that's a thing).
It may be on by default for the cameras targeted at a female audience (in a rapidly shrinking market, female bloggers for instance are a big target), otherwise it won't even be available in more specialized or "hardcore" markets, like DSLR or mirrorless (4/3rds, Nikon 1, EOS M etc) for instance. For the anecdote, I bought a shockproof/waterproof compact camera last year and there's nothing so fancy on it.