Nikon Is RACIST

CannedHeat wrote in post #8700414
Note to self: I gotta' stop wasting time reading threads like this. When you see a thread entitled "Nikon is Racist", walk on by, Dan... just walk on by.

Absolutely right. That's what I should have done!

ElTigreBlanco wrote in post #8699832
I believe they are implying that the nikon was making a racist remark about how asian people have squinty eyes.

Is that what you call our eyes?

OK then...

RDKirk wrote in post #8700376
But it could only have existed on a digital camera which provides a means for examining the image...but there is already the LCD view which gives the photographer an ability to examine much more than eyes.

In that view finder I see a whole lot more than just my wife's eyes. I check the back ground, check AF focussing on the right spot, check exposure settings, watch my baby daughter's facial expression, watch out that she doesn't run out of my frame, etc. There's a lot of stuff going on in a family candid shot and it would be helpful if my camera could help me take care of the most mundane tasks. Needless to say, a film camera won't ever have a feature like this since there exists no image processing facility for undeveloped film.

RDKirk wrote in post #8700376
This does not strike me as a worthwhile feature...and I suspect a lot of photographers of Asians will turn it off.

I have worked with many people of Asian origin, but never once in my life I cought myself thinking "please open your eyes when I talk to you" or similar. There are many jokes about Asian eyes, but obviously Asian eyes are open enough to reveal their pupil, so a decent image processor can reliably classify their open eyes as open. It's also obvious on the pics in the Nikon ad. I don't try to play the political correctness firing squad here, but I'm stunned that people in a photography forum know so little about the anatomy of human faces

Here is my thought on this.. The advertising brochure was probably produced in Japan,,hence Japanese models..

I think it's all a bit of a fuss over nothing.

LOLOLOLOL, damn nikon ppl

Roy Mathers wrote in post #8701404
I think it's all a bit of a fuss over nothing.

You got that right

Time to get a little bit Amish in our buying mentality and ask, "Is this really going to improve my life and the lives of my family? Hmm. Not really. I'll pass on this one."

By using that thought pattern when deciding on office suites, I've wound up sticking with Microsoft Office 2000.

I've got a newer Nikon point and shoot as well and I think its a cool feature to help people realize they may have taken a picture when someone had their eyes closed..

I'm not sure about your point. My point was that if this feature frequently makes such errors as to interpret Asian eye shape as "closed," then people who frequently photograph Asians will turn it off.

I don't see how that relates to my comment or why anything said in this thread so far should elicit the comment "I'm stunned that people in a photography forum know so little about the anatomy of human faces."

Everyone in this thread, AFAICS, "gets" the irony of a Nikon camera mistaking Asian eye shape as closed eyes.

Roy Mathers wrote in post #8701404
I think it's all a bit of a fuss over nothing.

I don't think it was intended as a "fuss." It seems clear to me that it was intended by the OP as an ironic joke.

Roy Mathers wrote in post #8701404
I think it's all a bit of a fuss over nothing.

A tempest in a teacup comes to mind.

That's what I had in mind - or, bearing in mind the subject matter, maybe a typhoon in a teacup?

Seamaster007 wrote in post #8699786

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ANGRY!!!!
Now I now know why we all like Canon!

I wouldn't have been so irritated here, if that picture and this "joke" wasn't like a year or two old already. Seriously? Grow up.

OK, I think this thread has run it's useful course.
Nighty, night.
-Bruce