LATEST ADDITIONS

A Wedding Pros Confession
I Still Use Medium Format Manual Focus Cameras, For My Work
Steve Bedell  |  Jan 01, 2001

First, let me state that I currently shoot the majority of my wedding photos with a Bronica SQ-Ai medium format 6x6 camera. I use Kodak Portra 400VC 220 film (I like the extra snap in the contrast). It's fast enough for 90 percent of the...

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LightingPro TechniquesPortraiture
Available Light Portraits
10 Secrets To Photographing People Using Minimum Equipment
Joe Farace  |  Jan 01, 2001

It should come as no surprise to you to discover that there are few--maybe no--real secrets in photography. Instead, what you find are informed opinions based on experience blended with some stylistic preferences. The recipe for producing...

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Pro Techniques
Autofocus Problem Solving
10 Tips For Reliable Photography
Peter K. Burian  |  Jan 01, 2001

A full 15 years have passed since the first commercially viable autofocus SLR was introduced (the Maxxum 7000) and the technology has been improved significantly since then. Even so, some photographers consider AF suitable only for snapshooting.

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Portraiture
Wedding And Portraiture
Seeing Pictures, Outdoor Backgrounds Around Every Corner
Monte Zucker  |  Jan 01, 2001

I arrived at the International Wedding Institute, Hasselblad's annual school for wedding photographers in Tucson, Arizona, a day early to get a feel for things and scout locations for outdoor portraiture. I didn't have to look far.

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Pro Techniques
The Tip Off
Essence, Too Much Of A Good Thing
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jan 01, 2001

It's an old antique store--okay, you can call it a junk shop--by the side of the road in Delaware, and photographer Tony Sweet drives by a lot on his way to the coast from his home in Baltimore. And it's a great place to take pictures simply because it...

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Student Union
Student Union - Mae Williams
Jay McCabe  |  Jan 01, 2001

Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson
New York

Currently
Mae is a freshman at Bard, planning a dual major, photography and medieval studies.

The Program
"The photography program is a four-year course, and it's very competitive...

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The Olympus P400 Color Printer
David B. Brooks  |  Jan 01, 2001

In the last few years many of the companies offering consumer digital cameras have also marketed complementary digital snapshot print size thermal printers. Now that 3 plus megapixel prosumer digital cameras are becoming the norm, and...

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Microtek Artixscan 2500
David B. Brooks  |  Jan 01, 2001

In the last year I've had more e-mail inquiries about what scanner to buy if a photographer has medium and large format film to scan than any other single topic. Until now I've not had a good answer for anyone requiring professional...

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Megazoom, The Sigma 50 to 500mm f4 to 6.3 APO Tele Zoom Lens
Robert E. Mayer  |  Jan 01, 2001

A long 10x zoom range is typically found on better movie cameras and camcorders--but rarely is offered for still photography. Available now from Sigma, the new Sigma 50-500mm f/4-6.3 APO produces the kind of crisply detailed images you...

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First Look
Innovative New Minolta Maxxum 7
Peter K. Burian  |  Jan 01, 2001

Just when we thought that cameras had reached the maximum level of technological achievement, Minolta engineers raised the bar significantly. Their new Maxxum 7 took a giant step beyond our expectations with some truly innovative technology. Resembling a...

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