Face-Detection Cameras: Users' Racism Charges Explained
When Joz Wang and her brother bought their mom a Nikon Coolpix S630 digital camera for Mother's Day last year, they discovered what seemed to be a malfunction. Every time they took a portrait of each other smiling, a message flashed across the screen asking, "Did someone blink?" No one had. "I thought the camera was broken!" Wang, 33, recalls. But when her brother posed with his eyes open so wide that he looked "bug-eyed," the messages stopped.
Wang, a Taiwanese-American strategy consultant who goes by the Web handle "jozjozjoz," thought it was funny that the camera had difficulties figuring out when her family had their eyes open. So she posted a photo of the blink warning on her blog under the title, "Racist Camera! No, I did not blink... I'm just Asian!" The post was picked up by Gizmodo and Boing Boing, and prompted at least one commenter to note, "You would think that Nikon, being a Japanese company, would have designed this with Asian eyes in mind."
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01-23-2010, 06:09 AM #1C.I.A.
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RACIST NIKON CAMERA? "I did not blink, I'm just Asian!"
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01-23-2010, 06:53 AM #2C.I.A.
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hahaha! only for owls.
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01-23-2010, 07:12 AM #3C.I.A.
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nyay for real??
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01-23-2010, 08:43 AM #4
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hahahaha!!!!!!!!
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01-23-2010, 08:53 AM #5
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I can see our camera options growing..
select scene > ...sports...landscape...portrait...
select race > ...african...caucasian..asian...middle eastern..
select gender> ...male...female...
select age> ...infant...toddler...child...preteen...teen...young adult...
select range> ...single...couple...threesome...group...crowd...
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01-23-2010, 09:39 AM #6Elite Member
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naa sad diay option oh.. informative sir, thanks....
Originally Posted by abortretryfail
atleast dili ni problema sa mga pinoy kay dagko man ta mata
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01-23-2010, 11:34 AM #7Senior Member
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hahahaha...toinks! kuyawa ani woist kung matinood man gani. Originally Posted by abortretryfail
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02-02-2010, 12:01 AM #8C.I.A.
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kulang man ang gender option... hahahaha
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02-02-2010, 05:51 AM #9C.I.A.
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bwahahahaha.. Classic... "I did not blink, I'm Just Asian".. hahhaah
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02-02-2010, 08:39 AM #10Junior Member
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what's next? auto iso? camera raises the iso for darker colored people and lowers iso for white colored people? hehehehe.....
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