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Image Capture Revisited
Joe Farace  |  Mar 01, 2001  | 

Proving that in digital imaging, like the rest of photography "there are no absolutes," I've been forced to re-examine my original contention that there are just three major phases of digital imaging. To my original trifecta of image...

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Imaging And Your Health
Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 2000  | 

Because of the huge amount
of equipment photographers lug around some of us are cursed with back
and feet problems. Since digital imaging, especially the postproduction
aspects, seems more passive you might think thatth...

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Imaging With Mac OS X
Live From San Francisco Its A Mac World Expo 2002
Joe Farace  |  May 01, 2002  | 

"The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village."--Marshall McLuhan

Home to a diverse, inquisitive people who openly embrace the "differently"-ness of Macintosh computers, San Francisco is the perfect...

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Is There A Correct Way To Make A Photograph? Of Course Not, And Don’t Let Anyone Tell You Otherwise!
Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 2006  | 

"Crankshaft: I want to buy a camera. Photo clerk: Digital? Crankshaft: No I plan to operate it with my toes."
--"Crankshaft" comic strip

Steve Kennedy is a photographer, automobile expert, and author of Jaguar: The Classic Marque (

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Isn’t It Ironic? The End Of Kodak’s Black And White Photo Paper
Joe Farace  |  Oct 01, 2005  | 

"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."
--Robert Heinlein

After 100 years, Eastman Kodak has stopped making black and white photographic paper that the Associated Press called "a niche product for fine art photographers and hobbyists..." I don't think there is any such thing as "fine...

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It's A Brave New World
Joe Farace  |  Mar 01, 2000  | 

As digital imaging technology matures, trends are beginning to emerge. For digital cameras these trends are going in several different directions. Higher resolutions at lower prices mean that the image quality gap between professional field cameras is...

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It’s National Hardware Month...Again; Gizmos, Gadgets, And Widgets, Oh My!
Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 2005  | 

"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."--Ernst Haas

Whenever I rant about how it's the photographer's vision not the hardware that's important for creating memorable images, I'm reminded of when I was younger and shooting pictures with a well-used...

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Looking At The Past, Looking Into The Future
Joe Farace  |  Jan 01, 1999  | 

"Who would believe that so small a space could contain the image of all the universe?"--Leonardo da Vinci's comments on the Camera Obscura

Like many digital imagers, I'm...

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Networking: It Is For Everybody
Joe Farace  |  Nov 01, 2003  | 

"Computers = Ticket To Hell."--the back of an Alien Skin Software T-shirt

Recently I received a press release from a high-tech company hyping "an event announcing a...

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New Computers, New Standards, And A New Century
Joe Farace  |  Aug 01, 1999  | 

"Get on the bus, Gus"--Paul
Simon

Recently I've been
testing Apple Computer's hot new 400MHz Power Macintosh G3 computer.
With its...

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New Operating Systems And Products For Pixographers
Joe Farace  |  Aug 01, 2001  | 

One of the biggest challenges facing many digital imagers is the constant introduction of new hardware and software products. Decisions about upgrading software is not much different than when your favorite camera manufacturer introduces a new...

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New Year's Resolutions
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To New Year's Eve
Joe Farace  |  Jan 01, 2005  | 

All Photos © 2004, Joe Farace, All Rights Reserved

"I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on a disc somewhere."--how I feel on January 2nd.

It wasn't really a holiday present, at least I don't think so, but my pal Jason gave me a Russian-made Horizon 202 rotating lens panoramic camera as a gift. I've always...

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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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Perfect Digital Exposure
Joe Farace  |  Nov 01, 2002  |  First Published: Oct 01, 2002  | 

The number one question I hear from students at the film-based workshops I teach and one that usually permeates the entire event is a quest for perfect exposures, "How to determine a consistent approach that will guarantee perfectly...

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Photo CD Vs. Picture Disc: It's Not A Competition
Joe Farace  |  Oct 01, 1999  | 

In addition to a bunch of new digital imaging products, including an update to Adobe Photoshop and an impressive new ink jet paper from Ilford, this month's column includes a response to a reader's fears that Eastman Kodak had discontinued the...

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