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Konica Minolta’s DiMAGE X1; Shirt Pocket-Sized 8-Megapixel Digicam
Joe Farace  |  Jan 01, 2006

Konica Minolta's DiMAGE X1 is an 8-megapixel point-and-shoot digicam that's almost as tiny as their other X-series cameras. It's also sleek, stylish, and comes with a cradle for transferring images and recharging. All that's good stuff but the really big news is that the camera includes Konica Minolta's Anti-Shake technology for taking sharp photos in...

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Web Profiles
A Great New Year; Let The Race Begin
Joe Farace  |  Jan 01, 2006

Max: I never saw a car like that in my life! Prof. Fate: Yes, and you never will again, either. Give me the bomb!--The Great Race (1965)

Blake Edward's film The Great Race was based on a real motorsports event. The original "Great Race" took place in 1908 when automobiles from different...

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Help!
Robert E. Mayer  |  Jan 01, 2006

Here is a quick tip list on letters for the HELP! desk:
Please confine yourself to only one question per letter. Both postal letters and e-mails are fine, although we prefer e-mail as the most efficient form of communication. Send your e-mail queries to editorial@shutterbug.com with Help in the subject header and...

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Medium Format Camera NewsMedium Format Camera Reviews
Great Buys In Medium Format Cameras; In The Wake Of The Digital Revolution, You Can Snag Your Dream 2 1/4 Film Camera At A Fantastic Price
Jason Schneider  |  Jan 01, 2006

Just the other day a buddy of mine bought the Hasselblad he'd always wanted but couldn't afford at the unheard price of $475. It was a 20-year-old Hasselblad 500C/M, the functional equivalent of the current 500C/W. He purchased it from a private seller for $475 in near-mint condition, complete with 12-exposure back, waist-level finder, and 80mm f/2.8 Carl Zeiss...

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Outdoor/TravelGlobetrotter
Globetrotter
Niagara Falls; Feel The Power, Capture The Wonder
Rick Sammon  |  Jan 01, 2006

Last year, I had the opportunity to photograph one of the world's most magnificent waterfalls. I traveled halfway around the world to capture the beauty and awe of this exotic and remote travel destination. I was filled with great photographic expectations.

When I finally reached the falls, I was actually quite disappointed--because there was hardly any...

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Fujifilm’s FinePix S9000; A 9-Megapixel Superzoom Digicam With Low Light Bragging Rights
George Schaub  |  Jan 01, 2006

By now Shutterbug readers know that we call cameras with integral (non-interchangeable) lenses digicams. This is not meant as denigration but as differentiation from digital SLRs. And usually, due in part to the volume of models and in main because of their sameness, we usually hold off on any type of digicam review, feeling readers will not be that interested in more than a...

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Editor's Notes
Photographers’ Debate: Film Vs. Film, Digital Vs. Digital…And Digital Vs. Film (And JPEG Vs. Raw, While We’re At It)
George Schaub  |  Jan 01, 2006

The title of this editorial sounds confusing, and confused, I know, but I am voicing here a mere mirror for our photographic times. There are so many options available these days, with each having its camp and cheerleaders, that it's little wonder that photographers might seem confused. To begin with film vs. film, there's been a continuing debate over whether it is...

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Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations
New Year’s Rockin’ Software; Treasures From Around The World
Joe Farace  |  Jan 01, 2006

This month's column contains practical and creative software from around the world, including something new from Greece's gift to the imaging world, Panos Efstathiadis. It's rare to see artists working together, but Efstathiadis' Stamp, that appears at the end of this column, is part of Frank Hatcher's WZ2K Cork Board Photoshop Action set. Some of...

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Digital Help
Digital Help
Q&A For Digital Photography
David B. Brooks  |  Jan 01, 2006

Digital Help is designed to aid you in getting the most from your digital photography, printing, scanning, and image creation. Each month, David Brooks provides solutions to problems you might encounter with matters such as color calibration and management, digital printer and scanner settings, and working with digital photographic images with many different kinds of cameras and...

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Digital Darkroom
Multi-Image Flat-Bed Scanner Techniques; Getting Six (Or More) Scans For The Price Of One
Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Jan 01, 2006

You may not think of Photoshop as being a flat-bed scanner tool, but it's way ahead of whatever is in second place. Recently we had a customer who wanted a whole shoebox of family snapshots scanned and converted to digital files. This could have been a very time-consuming job if it were not for Photoshop CS and the delightful way it works with all flat-bed scanners.
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