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Summer is in full swing and the season is heating up with new camera announcements. Fuji steps to the plate with five new models that follow the trend toward more megapixels and slowly growing zoom ranges, while adding to the company’s set of signature features. As with the company’s PMA introductions the new cameras will all be able to store images to both xD Picture Cards and SD or SDHC cards.

With the Finepix F50fd, Fuji is introducing a new version of the company’s face detection technology, which Fuji calls Face Detection 2.0. While the old version could deal with faces that faced different angles in the horizontal plane–such as someone turning her head from side to side– Fuji says the new version can also accommodate faces that vary in the vertical plane, such as a person laying down. The system can detect up to 10 faces at a time and will set autofocus based on the primary face, while adjusting auto exposure so that all the selected faces are properly exposed, if possible. Fuji says that Face Detection 2.0 should be able to detect faces even in profile, which should be interesting, since most face detection systems we’ve seen so far need to detect two eyes to identify a face.

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