Posted on 01/22/2010 9:41:35 AM PST by Vaquero
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.
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lol funny ...
You can’t make this stuff up. I think there was a story around Christmas time about a HP webcam that had a very difficult time picking up the faces of blacks. Everyone got all upset like the company did this on purpose.
Kind of counter-intuitive.. A racist plot against Asians developed by an Asian company?
Unrelated but critical to this discussion: Asian women are hot.
At least the camera didn’t ask “Did someone brink?”
Geez, is everything racist nowadays even cameras? I have one of these cameras and it is always saying did someone blink even when no one did. We just ignore it or we talk to the camera like it cares stating nope, no one blinked stupid camera. :)
We are not asian at all or colored other than maybe more on the red side than white.....
Bahhhhh.....
I really fail to see the point in the camera asking you if someone blinked... The time between someone blinking, the camera noticing, and you reading the message isn’t gonna stop you from taking the picture right when someone blinks... Unless the people you know close their eyes for a couple seconds each time :p
You think its funny?
yep spit
I love my Nikon FM2, Nikon F Photomic FTn, and Nikkormat FT3, but my digital Nikon Coolpix 5000 is a major disappointment. A lousy camera.
Is this going to be a thread where we post hot Asian chicks. I’m all for that.
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