Cameras Tinker With Reality

Between photo-enhancing techniques and digital cameras like these HP models with "slimming features," the incentive to lose weight for real is dwindling. Why bother if we can look good in pictures?

Newer cameras and photo-enhancing technology offer some cool ways to improve reality. But is that a good thing in a country where 65 percent of the adults are overweight or obese?

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! trumpets HP about the seven models that offer the feature. Among them are the HP Photosmart R967 and the HP Photosmart R927, which Robin wrote about in this lineup of digital cameras.

The slimming feature has the same effect on every subject, but if the subject is a person, the effect is subtle and leaves the person looking like the same person, HP says. And you can see a before and after version before opting for reality or slimmed-down reality.

Adjusting reality is getting easier to do with new cameras on the market, as this Cnet story points out. Photoshop-like editing features are being built into cameras to make changes before the photos ever hit a computer screen and editing software.  

Would you use these features if you had them on your digital camera?