Posted on 04/16/2014 9:44:01 PM PDT by KneelBeforeZod
The only bias revealed here is in the fact that somehow this article got published without presenting any facts whatsoever, while being written at a 2nd grade level.
5 minutes I’ll never get back.
Obviously Jesse Jackson and Hank Aaron need to get on the case.
The inventors of the camera obscura are *long* dead.
See, NPR is on to it...same reason we drive over black asphalt every day.
Kooks.
Were black inventors prevented from developing film technology to favor advances beneficial to blacks? If not, why the wringing of hands by this writer?
Sure. And that is why that proud black ship, the Titanic, was sunk by that racist, white, iceberg.
Its true. The dark skin just swallows up the light. You see the white faces no prob, but the black faces are just smears. The photographer will have to really work to get some contrast.
It sucks, but I think it is just one of those things you gotta accept. For many black people, incidents like this are a constant reminder of their ‘inferiority’.
It is hard to photograph black stuff.
We have a big black Maine Coon cat. Every photo of him looked like a cutout silhouette. One summer we had a load of dirt delivered to level a few spots in the lawn. The cat decided he liked rolling in this dry dusty dirt and he became gray colored. Photos of him after rolling in the dust were remarkably good and detailed. Two years after this, we bought a new camera. The new camera had a feature that allowed for photos in situations of same color. Mostly it was for taking pictures of snow where everything was white. It allowed us to photograph the cat when he was clean.
This has to be one of the most stupid articles I have ever read. (My bad for even clicking on it, since I saw right away that it was NPR). Todays cameras often get skin color wrong, from ANY skin. It can be lighting, shadowing, haze, and any number of reasons. That’s why any number of free photo processing software tools have color correction. If someone doesn’t like it, they can FIX IT. Crying and whining about racist cameras is unbecomming.
stupid self serving article
Everything in the modern world is “racist” because when whites created it, they did so for themselves.
Those who object to the way it turned out, in photography, or otherwise, are perfectly free to create their own “non-racist” technologies. If they are better, they will win out in the market place.
Go for it.
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