Point-and-shoot cameras advertise Face Recognition , a cheap trick that a Serious Photographer using a Real Camera with a Fast Prime Lens would never go near. Oh, wait.
What happened was
At goto; Aarhus the big first-night party was 007-themed , which gave everyone with flashy duds an excuse to wear them. People were looking good and I wanted to take portraits; it was dim in that room, so I was using a prime lens jammed wide-open. Heres what Fujifilm calls Face detection at work.
Kresten Krab Thorup, conference organizer, Erjang guy, smart.
Nicky
Plant, a beauty therapist with secret desire
to be a Bond
villainess.
Randy Shoup, consulting CTO in Silicon Valley,
formerly of eBay, Google, and KIXEYE.
Eva
Andreasson, Swedish JVM engineer
gone American Big Data product
manager
Dont they all look great?
I was surprised to find Intelligent Face Detection buried down in the X-T1 menus. The name is a lie; what it actually does is find eyes and lock in on them. With a steely grip. The fact that it works at close quarters in low light at F1.4, especially given that the 35mm probably has the klunkiest autofocus of all the Fujinon X-lenses, feels like a miracle to me.