Hit A Button And Loose 10 Pounds

I’m a whore for pictures. I bring my camera with me everywhere, and have blinded people on nights out by taking pictures every 42 seconds. Seen those stop motion films ever? That’s a perfect example of how my nights out are documented. Love, love pictures.

And I’m still totally in awe of digital cameras. Not all the fancy-shmancy settings you can do, it’s all about the little things for me. I’m still amazed that you’re able to see the picture right away—and realize that was a really bad angle of you. You can simply erase any unflattering image that’s on there and ensure no one has blackmail material on you later. You will not be scarring my facebook image with that, thank you very much. And it’s gone.

But have camera makers taken it a bit too far? I haven’t decided if this is a great feature, or kinda freaky… but now you can purchase cameras with a “slimming option” built in. On the HP model I looked at, you can seriously whither a person down to half their size. This is great in some ways—who wouldn’t like to trim those thighs with the push of a button? If only it were real life, right?

That’s the thing that kind of freaks me out about this—it’s not real life. I can imagine playing around with this feature, making myself and my friends look like supermodels, and realizing after that no one looks the way they do in my pictures. And that’s just not nearly as fun. I mean, maybe take off a pound, or two, but otherwise it’s just pretty strange. Ok—if I was getting married, and wanted every picture of me to be stunning, I might indulge in this gizmo. Otherwise—I’m not sure I like it.