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Epson Stylus Photo 900
A New Improved Model That Prints On CDRs And DVD-Rs
David B. Brooks  |  Oct 01, 2003

Epson adds a new capability to their newest ink jet printer model. Now for the first time the individual user can create professional labels printing directly on a CD-R or DVD-R disc to obtain a professional appearance and avoid the problems and hassles of stick-on labels. Epson's new...

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Editor's Notes
Editor's Notes
George Schaub  |  Oct 01, 2003

Editor's Notes

Photography is by definition "drawing with light" and that's what we do every time we press the shutter release button. We take the light reflected from our subjects and etch the moment as a latent image on film or as a binary code that lands up on our...

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10 Low-Light Photo Tips
The Editors  |  Oct 01, 2003

Ways to be bright when it gets dark.

Low-light photography can yield some amazingly striking and unusual images. But it also presents a problem. You need a fast enough shutter speed to prevent camera-shake-induced image blurring, and sometimes to "freeze" a moving subject. You often need to shoot at a small enough aperture to provide adequate depth of field. You want to use the...

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Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations
Digicams Are Not New
Joe Farace  |  Oct 01, 2003

"History repeats itself; that's one of the things wrong with history."--Clarence Darrow

In February 1990, I wrote a story for the now-defunct Photomethods magazine...

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The Darkroom
The Darkroom: Strip, Clean, And Overhaul
Frances E. Schultz  |  Oct 01, 2003

"A house is a machine for living."--Le Corbusier

Any machine needs maintenance. Here's how I maintain my darkroom: a "strip, clean, and overhaul" in...

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Classic Camera Reviews
Classic Cameras
Voigtlander Bessa
Roger W. Hicks  |  Oct 01, 2003

Anyone who reads Shutterbug regularly will know of my enthusiasm for modern Voigtländer cameras. I'm also extremely fond of the postwar Prominent 35mm leaf-shutter rangefinder camera, and I have a great (though guarded) admiration for its prewar 120 namesake, one of the most...

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Business Trends
Business Trends
Lighting Your Way To Success
Maria Piscopo  |  Oct 01, 2003

I never really believed in the term "overnight success" in photography that is, until I met one. Patrick Ecclesine's (www.ecclesine.com) achievements took actually a week or two and they were...

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Bowens 9Lite System
Hot Portraits With Cold Lights
Joe Farace  |  Oct 01, 2003

The Bowens 9Lite is designed specifically for digital photography and gets its name from the nine fluorescent pigtail tubes that screw into its main housing. Like Bowens Tri-Lite (see sidebar "Photographing Small Products") these are cold hot lights and each lamp head contains nine...

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Pro Techniques
Both Sides Now
Bruce Myren Looks At The Pros And Cons Of The Digital World
Rosalind Smith  |  Oct 01, 2003

Bruce Myren, photographer, digital guru, and dedicated artist, is often cast in the role of the assistant who doesn't carry lights or equipment. He quietly trails into a shoot behind some of the area's top pros who don't happen to shoot...

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Web Profiles
Web Profiles
Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 2003

Scavenging For Images
Ya gotta love a site named Image Scavenger (www.imagescavenger.com). Behind its whimsical homepage, photographer Merrill C. Anderson has collected images that...

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