Category: Cell Phone Talk
Turns out that in ios 5 on both the i pad 2 and iphone 4s, voiceover will use facial recognition to tell you how many faces there are when you're taking a picture in the camera app.
All you have to do is open the camera and point it at the people you want to photograph. Voiceover announces how many faces it's locked on too, as well as telling you where in the image the faces are.
I've found it fairly easy to center a face in the photo and take a decent picture.
Maybe this is old news to some, but I just found it tonight and thought it'd be worth a mention.
This feature is really awesome, not just because it's the first of it's kind (at least that I know of), but because of the possibilities it opens up for blind photographers.
I actually knew about this for a while.
The only place where I wish it worked was when you access the camera from the lock screen, but sadly VoiceOver won't tell you how many faces if you access the camera that way.
You have to actually go to the camera app for it to work which is a shame cause the other way is way faster to get to the camera.
yeah, i noticed that.