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The 21/4 Square Format
It Is Big Enough To Be Almost Whatever You Want It To Be
Mike Matzkin  |  Jan 01, 1998

The 6x7 negative or transparency is considered the ideal format. Bigger is better. There's less of a grain problem when you make big prints from fast film. In black and white the bigger negative also means an expanded gray scale. It's easier to...

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Sigma AF 70-300mm f4-5.6 DL Macro
Peter K. Burian  |  Jan 01, 1998

Although many of Sigma's new lenses incorporate the latest technology and/or premium grade optics, this manufacturer continues to compete aggressively in the market for affordable zoom lenses. In addition to its APO, Aspherical, and HSM series, Sigma...

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Pro Techniques
Razor Sharp
Pro Tips For Larger Images
Jay Abend  |  Jan 01, 1998

One of the claims often heard when talking about medium format cameras is, "With this camera you can get practically 4x5 quality." How realistic is that claim anyway? Let's face it, a 4x5 sheet of film has over three times the total real...

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Photokina Show Report
Tripods, Lighting, Accessories And Weird Stuff
Roger W. Hicks  |  Jan 01, 1998

In the nature of things,
photographers tend to care more about cameras than about accessories.
It's irrational, really, as most of us buy accessories more often
than we buy cameras, but then, who saidt...

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PhotoExplorer By PhotoSoft
David B. Brooks  |  Jan 01, 1998

These days a raft of new image management software keeps appearing and usually just gets a passing glance from me. At one end of the spectrum there are all kinds of little utilities often bundled with hardware or another larger application to keep track of...

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Seeing With A New Eye
Peter McDonough
Rosalind Smith  |  Jan 01, 1998

Peter McDonough is concerned
with perception; not the physiological aspects of perception, but rather
how the eye sees and converts its image, what people see and what they
don't see of a given subject. Quotingthe...

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Film Photography Reviews
Palette Toners
Frances E. Schultz  |  Jan 01, 1998

There are those who say that there really isn't any reason, anymore, to go into the darkroom to tone prints. After all, you can sit in front of the computer and change color balance, alter brightness and contrast, and bend curves to get all kinds of...

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Mr. Fix It
Posing Is Problem Solving...But Why Bother?
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jan 01, 1998

The thing is, we don't
always look our best. And even when we do, the face in the mirror is
not the face we're going to see in the photograph; neither is
the rest of the body. We tend to automatically editou...

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