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Sun Star Strobo Big Monostar 600
Jay Abend  |  Feb 01, 1999

Many of you may have seen my review last April of the Sun Star Strobo Mini-1200 flash system. At the time Sun Star Strobo was an all but unheard of flash manufacturer, producing a full line of impressive looking studio flash equipment. The Mini Series...

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Pro Techniques
Safe Computing
How To Avoid Catching A Virus
Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 1999

Computer viruses are small, invasive programs written by malevolent and misanthropic misfits that are designed to create havoc within your computer system. You get computer viruses in the same way that you catch the human variety; through contact with...

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Portraiture
Photojournalistic Wedding
Try B&W For Your Candids
Steve Bedell  |  Feb 01, 1999

What started as a trickle has become a full-fledged stream. Just a few years back, black and white candids were unheard of at weddings. Then, as the visually sophisticated public began seeing how distinctive black and white photos looked in the ads in...

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Photography Through The Ages
Norma Holt
Rosalind Smith  |  Feb 01, 1999

Norma Holt surveys her subjects
with the eye of a purist, her direct and intelligent gaze looking at
life from childhood to old age. Her focus is often on the artists around
her, some well-known, others, less noted, but...

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No Limits
The Reality Of Black And White
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Feb 01, 1999

Judah S. Harris tells this story about one of his photos: "I had just bought a new Bogen tripod, and I went out in the Olympic National Forest area in Washington to photograph with it. I left my rented car down on the road. I wanted to photograph...

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Nikon Super CoolScan 2000
David B. Brooks  |  Feb 01, 1999

Nikon has been at the forefront of 35mm film scanning from the beginning, and has enjoyed a top position in the field most recently with the CoolScan LS-1000. Just a short time ago Nikon announced a new CoolScan that would be better and easier to use, but...

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Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000
David B. Brooks  |  Feb 01, 1999

The early rumors were pitting microsoft's new, yet to be announced application against Photoshop. How wrong the pundits were. Microsoft's new PhotoDraw 2000 is a quite different approach to a graphics and photo application because Microsoft...

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Robert E. Mayer  |  Feb 01, 1999

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Digital Darkroom
GrayScales
B&W From A Color Printer
Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Feb 01, 1999

A few years ago the manufacturers of ink jet printers were struggling in order to make printers that could lay down very tiny dots--very close together. During those days if you tried to make a black and white print, it tended to look a little grainy...

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Pro Techniques
Getting Started
Pro Tips For Platinum Printing
Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 1999

"The tone he produces on rough platinotype paper by skillful printing and carefully aged mercury baths cannot be reproduced by any mechanical process."
--George Bernard Shaw on the photographs of Frederick Evans

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