HP - "Slimming Photos"

Spunj99 · 21 Sep 2006 at 23:38

http://www.hp.com/united-states/consumer/digital_photography/tours/slimming/index_f.html

Obviously HP don't agree with the phrase, "big is beautiful". :eek:

TheCrow · 21 Sep 2006 at 23:39

well played HP

titchard · 21 Sep 2006 at 23:43

After what is going around in the news about Slim being out this is quite funny!

Although these cameras are quite old, I can see them being quite popular, and it is quite a cool feature!

Rich

james.miller · 21 Sep 2006 at 23:46

all it does is compress the image horizontally, its obvious from the first photo with the trees in the background. how else would it work?

titchard · 21 Sep 2006 at 23:49

james.miller said:
all it does is compress the image horizontally, its obvious from the first photo with the trees in the background. how else would it work?

Well yeah, but joe bloggs on the street doesn't know how to do this, so having it built into the camera makes it a good selling point.

Rich

ironman · 21 Sep 2006 at 23:51

What a silly effect, you may look slim in the photo but you're still a fat ****.

james.miller · 21 Sep 2006 at 23:51

much like digital zoom lol. No what i was really getting at, was the second image - the woman in the corner of the room. Thats so false its just wrong.

Lagz · 21 Sep 2006 at 23:52

james.miller said:
all it does is compress the image horizontally, its obvious from the first photo with the trees in the background. how else would it work?

Looks like it doesn't actually change the size of the photo though - so it must work out where the person is and compress that segment, stretching the other bits to make up for it?

titchard · 21 Sep 2006 at 23:52

gurdas said:
What a silly effect, you may look slim in the photo but you're still a fat ****.

It'll appeal to people who think they look fat in photos, regardless of whether they do in real life, they will love the fact the photos they take can be altered to show otherwise.

Rich

Raymond Lin · 21 Sep 2006 at 23:52

The reason the camera adds 10Ibs is because of the curvature of the lens, take a photo of say your monitor and the edge is curve outwards. Apply the same to someone and they will look "wider", solve it by using 100mm instead of 28mm.

axe · 21 Sep 2006 at 23:52

gurdas said:
What a silly effect, you may look slim in the photo but you're still a fat ****.

but you look good on myspace now

james.miller · 21 Sep 2006 at 23:55

Raymond Lin said:
The reason the camera adds 10Ibs is because of the curvature of the lens, take a photo of say your monitor and the edge is curve outwards. Apply the same to someone and they will look "wider", solve it by using 100mm instead of 28mm.

outwards? doesnt that means it curves in at the middle?

Treefrog · 22 Sep 2006 at 00:24

Raymond Lin said:
The reason the camera adds 10Ibs is because of the curvature of the lens, take a photo of say your monitor and the edge is curve outwards. Apply the same to someone and they will look "wider", solve it by using 100mm instead of 28mm.

Photographer> snapper tbh

P.S. Calmed down a bit yet? Or still excited?

Cybermyk · 22 Sep 2006 at 00:26

I actually prefer the originals for each example the "after" photo's are shapeless.

Raymond Lin · 22 Sep 2006 at 00:35

Treefrog said:
Photographer> snapper tbh

P.S. Calmed down a bit yet? Or still excited?

What do you think ?

Treefrog · 22 Sep 2006 at 01:08

Raymond Lin said:
What do you think ?

Hmmm, tricky ...

Neoni · 22 Sep 2006 at 03:15

also makes your face look like a grain of rice.

cheets64 · 22 Sep 2006 at 03:23

Women will love this, will sell like hot cakes.

Van Hellseek · 22 Sep 2006 at 06:03

Spunj99 said:
Obviously HP don't agree with the phrase, "big is beautiful".

neither do women*.

or most men for that matter.

other than the fat ****'s of course.

Tomsk · 22 Sep 2006 at 07:59

All the women (or men) will be showing their 'slim' photos to people and they will all be thinking "She/he has put on weight since this photo. Should I say something?"