OzRay
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I haven't played very much with the face detection function on the E-P2, but just doing so with it on the E-PL1 (seeing how it works as a P&S), I pointed it at our TV and I'll be stuffed, it picks up multiple faces on a TV (using the 14-42mm). It even does it with a TV embedded on a PC screen. I'm just starting to think about this and it's not all the krap that it's sometimes made out to be.
In much of the work I do, shooting people either singularly or in groups and the like is fairly common, and being able to rely on the camera to focus on the faces may not be a bad thing at all. When the camera can actually pick up numerous faces in a group and average the focus, that's pretty good. It really makes things a lot easier when things are tight.
Old and new prejudices may really have to take a back seat.
I forgot to mention that face detection even seems to work with manual lenses, though it doesn't come with AF.
Cheers
Ray
In much of the work I do, shooting people either singularly or in groups and the like is fairly common, and being able to rely on the camera to focus on the faces may not be a bad thing at all. When the camera can actually pick up numerous faces in a group and average the focus, that's pretty good. It really makes things a lot easier when things are tight.
Old and new prejudices may really have to take a back seat.
I forgot to mention that face detection even seems to work with manual lenses, though it doesn't come with AF.
Cheers
Ray