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Personal History: Hometown
Barry Tanenbaum  |  May 28, 2013  |  First Published: Apr 01, 2013  |  1 comments

A phone call from a friend woke Chris Fulcher at his home in Newtown, Connecticut, around 10:30am on December 14th last year. “I’d slept late and didn’t know what was going on,” Chris says. “My buddy told me to check the news, and then I rushed to the school because my 6-year-old cousin goes to that school.”

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Show Reports
photokina: 3D, VR, Dollies & More: Unique Studio Accessories
Roger W. Hicks  |  May 28, 2013  |  First Published: Apr 01, 2013  |  0 comments
As part of our continuing coverage of photokina, the worldwide gathering of the imaging industry, we present Roger Hicks’s fascinating report on unique studio accessories. As is his wont, Roger has turned up the arcane and unusual found in the main and hinterland booths of the massive show.—Editor
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News
Sigma f/1.8 Constant Aperture Zoom
Press Release  |  May 28, 2013  |  1 comments
Sigma Corporation of America has announced the Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM Art lens, the market’s first zoom lens to achieve a maximum aperture F1.8 throughout the entire zoom range.
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Pro Techniques
Photo History: Color Images From The FSA: The Farm Security Administration Archives Reveal A Treasure Of Photographs
Lou Jacobs Jr.  |  May 24, 2013  |  First Published: Apr 01, 2013  |  0 comments
In the annals of American photography the images made by Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographers in the 1930s and 1940s are famous. Over a dozen men and women captured a variety of life and work styles during the Great Depression. Their pictures, distributed to news media and other outlets, illustrate how people were dealing with the hard times of the Great Depression, and were used to justify programs for relief and aid.
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Show Reports
CES Photo Tech Notes: Get Connected, Go Retro & Stay Tough
George Schaub  |  May 24, 2013  |  First Published: Apr 01, 2013  |  0 comments
In an attempt to connect everything electronic, this year’s CES/PMA show in Las Vegas was awash in “smart” TVs, tablets, and various and sundry devices that can link to your device—be it phone, tablet, or camera—and allow you to access “image content” anywhere, anytime. There was also a rash of rough cameras, a 3D lens for still and video, new ways to customize your camera, and a major boost in USB storage and memory card speed. Following are some photo tech highlights.
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News
“From Fleeting to Forever” E-Book
Press Release  |  May 24, 2013  |  1 comments
While smartphones and digital cameras have made it easier than ever to capture every fleeting moment, they’ve also created some unique challenges: many of our cherished photographic memories are locked away on computer hard drives or camera memory cards never to see the light of day again. These images are not only gathering virtual dust, they’re alsovulnerable to hard drive crashes that could erase them forever.
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Talking Pictures
King Penguin Chick
Staff  |  May 21, 2013  |  First Published: Apr 01, 2013  |  0 comments
This King Penguin chick, warm in his downy “fur coat,” didn’t seem to mind the snow, cold, or gray skies, but he plaintively called for his parents hoping to be fed. Larger than either parent he seemed to be well cared for, but his full-throated calls and beseeching body language made it clear that he wanted his parents and food now. It’s hard to make your voice heard among so many thousands I’m sure, but it made us smile. He has more in common with human children than he knows.
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News
Pelican ProGear S130 Sport Elite
Press Release  |  May 21, 2013  |  1 comments
Pelican Products, Inc. has introduced the Pelican ProGear™ S130 Sport Elite Laptop/Camera Divider Pack, the newest addition to its consumer products line, Pelican ProGear.
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Film Photography NewsShow Reports
photokina: Film & Film Cameras: Silver Halide…Still Gleaming?
Roger W. Hicks  |  May 21, 2013  |  First Published: Apr 01, 2013  |  0 comments

Here’s another in our series of reports from photokina 2012. As you will have noticed we do not attempt to create a laundry list of new products and companies from the show, but prefer to report on what struck our eye and thought might be of special interest to Shutterbug readers. In this report Roger Hicks tells us about numerous instances of life in the film arena he found at the show, with special cameras, film, paper, and even processors part of the mix.—Editor

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Web Profiles
Digital April Showers Across The Internet: Short Attention Span Theater
Joe Farace  |  May 21, 2013  |  First Published: Apr 01, 2013  |  0 comments
Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, reports that a study of online retailing in 2006 found that a third of online shoppers with broadband connections abandoned a site if its pages took 4 seconds or longer to load; two-thirds quit when the delay reached 6 seconds. Recent studies by Google and Microsoft found that people abandon a site with a page loading delay of 250 milliseconds. If, as is becoming common in some photographers’ web design, there is a prelude before your real content launches or your server is slow, it does not bode well for increasing the number of visitors to your site.
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