If you have ever studied your holiday snaps and wished you’d lost a few pounds before hitting the beach, then this is the camera for you.
The ‘slimcam setting’ on the gadget uses high-tech digital trickery to shave a few inches off its subject. Marketed at women, the feature squeezes the picture in the middle, so the main object in focus looks thinner – but its surroundings are left unchanged.
It is believed the setting on the HP Photosmart R727, on sale at Comet, could give women the appearance of having lost a dress size.
Dateing sites will never be the same again….
2. People who use dateing sites will become even more shallow and jaded, as shoping for the perfect attractive body will become a deeper illusion.
I’m gonna need at least two of these things.
Where is the camera that makes things…umm…you know… look bigger? Just out of curiousity’s sake…
#5 – and that works so well. (what is the emoticon for rolling eyes?)
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So let me get this straight. We’ve invented a camera that takes the perfectly attractive woman on the right and transforms her into the perfectly attractive woman on the left, only vaguely compressed to play into the sick obsession with an artificial and totally unrealizable beauty standard created by years and years of mass media exposure.
Good Christ. I’m not particularly attracted to women shaped like planets, but soft curves and a little padding is a really nice thing… and who are most of us to be judgemental anyway? I only look like Brad Pitt when you are drunk, high, and have a fork stuck in one eye.
So if a man taking her holiday picture decided to rotate the camera 90 degrees, would he be guilty of abuse, or bullying?
7 – It would probably have a sensor to notice which way round it was being held, even my phone has that now…
But this effect would be REALLY obvious, and really only ver very desperate people.
8: with all respect to your insight, if the camera was in Landscape orientation, wouldn’t the slim-shot firmware more likely assume that the subject was lying down, like on a beach?
If not, then any picture taken of someone lying down with slimcam on would actually be fatcam. Fat chance!
Misused, the slimcam could turn your standard Rubens-esque sweetheart into the Mother of All Whales.
3 shots of Jack or Last call does the same thing!!!!!
Or a bottle of Nightshot Train Express
Oops, excuse the immoderate quantity. A highboy of Nightshot Train Express can do the trick. Kids, don’t do this at home.
Ah, the power of suggestion….
I say the best bet is not to send a photo at all and then blame the guy for overreacting.
say what?