quote:The HP Website says: They say cameras add ten pounds, but HP digital cameras can help reverse that effect. The slimming feature, available on select HP digital camera models, is a subtle effect that can instantly trim off pounds from the subjects in your photos!
Oh, the strides we make in combating the unrealistic body expectations! We don't need to fight this battle anymore, we can just fake it forever and ever!
Think you're too fat in that picture? No problem, slim it off! Slim off 10, 20, 30 pounds before you ever see your pictures, so you appear as beautiful outside as you are inside!
Met a new person, but all your friends are fat, fat slobs? HP's new firmware makes it easier than ever to slim them down, because who wants to hang out with someone who hangs out with fatties?
How did someone think this was a good idea? Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
You know, I don't necessarily like this idea, but the lenses on most digital cameras stretch the objects at the sides of the picture out horizontally. All I'd like them to do is stop that from happening.
Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
Eeew, some of those After photos look really creepy. Haven't people ever heard of lighting and angles?
Edit: and what Dag said. That was my first thought... why must they make it a "slimming tool" instead of a "correction tool"? I dunno. When people market things like this it makes me NOT buy it... same thing goes for food products.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Curse you Harry Potter! How dare you...
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dagonee: You know, I don't necessarily like this idea, but the lenses on most digital cameras stretch the objects at the sides of the picture out horizontally. All I'd like them to do is stop that from happening.
My issue is primarily with the way they're pushing this. 'Our cameras make you look skinnier!'
*sigh* Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
What's the point anyway?
Eventually someone will actually LOOK at you and discover you don't look like that. It's not so much lowering your body image as it is giving a false positive images of the body you want but don't have. You'd almost think it might encourage someone to work to get that body image, but all in all I don't see how in any way or form this is a good advancement.
Posted by Dr Strangelove (Member # 8331) on :
I don't think it's a horrible concept, but, like you said eros, the marketing makes me scratch my head. What will make me scratch my head even more will be if it succeeds. Although I do know people who constantly complain about how they look fat in pictures ... Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
quote:Eventually someone will actually LOOK at you and discover you don't look like that. It's not so much lowering your body image as it is giving a false positive images of the body you want but don't have
Right - the eventual consequences of which would likely be lowered body image.
Or egomania.
Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :
I don't know why... but first thing I thought when I saw topic title was HP Lovecraft.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
They've already seemingly used this very technology on promotional photos of Katie Couric.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Now you can get all the hotties on Myspace!
...as if there weren't already enough deceptive camera angles. Emo camera above your head full body shot, anyone?
-pH
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
Wow, What an amazing choice. Either spend money to look slimmer unconvincingly or stop being a fatass, eat less AND save money at the same time.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Either that, or just use The Gimp to do the same thing.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Anyone who thinks it's cheaper to be thin is not someone who's ever struggled with a weight problem. Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
Doing photomanipulation on the camera itself seems like a recipe for eating up battery life far too fast. I'll stick with messing with images on my computer.
Oh, and when it comes to the cost of being thin... 1 meal's worth of ramen: 10 cents 1 meal's worth of fresh fruits and vegetables: 10 dollars.
Yep, I can definitely see how it's cheaper to be thin.
Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :
Ramen were on sale near me for 3, yes 3, cents a package. Wow... I was just thinking, though, that if I could find some fresh spinach to eat I'd definitely lose some weight.
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
*snort*
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
quote:Haven't people ever heard of lighting and angles?
Exactly!
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
quote:Originally posted by Shigosei: Oh, and when it comes to the cost of being thin... 1 meal's worth of ramen: 10 cents 1 meal's worth of fresh fruits and vegetables: 10 dollars.
Yep, I can definitely see how it's cheaper to be thin.
That would be correct if I said to "eat healthier". What I actually said was to "eat less".
Your logic is incorrect because while you'd be eating less ramen, you'd be eating more fruits and vegetables compared to your original diet.
The correction would be: 1 meal with one serving of ramen: 10 cents 1 meal with a half serving of ramen: 5 cents
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Malnourishment-related medical costs caused by eating nothing more than half a serving of ramen per meal: too much
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
If you're fat enough to require a camera to make you look thinner AND you're already fat by eating nothing more than one serving of ramen per meal then I hardly think that malnurishment is an issue if you cut your ramen intake by half.
Posted by Tez (Member # 9749) on :
As far as I can tell, this is just bringing us one step closer to the Future(tm) where it doesn't matter what you actually look like, as long as your Myspace photos are smokin'. Every self-conscious 13-18 year old will have one of these cameras. Generations from now, our ancestors will be dumbfounded by how we went from an incredibly overweight nation to "way hawt" so quickly.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Who was it here on Hatrack (Dan_raven?) who wrote the story about the girl who decorated her apartment w/ mirrors and photos of furniture?
That's what this reminds me of.
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
Yeah, that was Dan.
Posted by Q (Member # 3733) on :
He looks so much better slimmed down, don't you agree?
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Mucus, I'm thin NATURALLY, and I still think it's way more expensive to stay in athlete shape than it would be for me to be "skinny-fat" (thin, but with a higher amount of body fat than would be expected).
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