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A Few Digital Rules Of Thumb
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Joe Farace • May 01, 2000 • 0 comments

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"640K ought to be enough for anybody," Bill Gates, 1981

I'm often asked by readers about the specifications for the "ideal digital...
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A Myth Is As Good As A Mile
Wash And Wear Memory Cards
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Joe Farace • Sep 01, 2003 • 0 comments

"It takes a licking and keeps on ticking."--John Cameron Swayze on Timex

A story oft told in photofinishing circles and one that is, perhaps, apocryphal goes like this: A customer...
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A Stroll Down Memory Lane
More Formats, Smaller Cards, Bigger Capacity To Come
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Joe Farace • Apr 01, 2003 • 0 comments

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"The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from."--Ken Olsen, founder of DEC

While it...
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All The Colors Of The Rainbow
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Joe Farace • Jan 01, 2001 • 0 comments

"It has taken me many years as an active image-maker to fully embrace the idea that the entire photographic process is an act of metamorphosis." --Jerry Uelsmann

If you shoot a...
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Analog Filters In A Digital World; Only The Strong Survive
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Joe Farace • Nov 01, 2005 • 0 comments

"I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking."
--Dorothy L. Sayers

Color filters for photography are often identified by their Wratten numbers, but who is this Wratten guy? Wratten & Wainwright made photo materials for commercial printing and by 1909 had established the Wratten system and published The Photography...
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Back To The Future
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Joe Farace • Mar 01, 2003 • 0 comments

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"Are you telling me you built a time machine out of a DeLorean?...The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style."--Back To...
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Be Careful What You Wish For
What I Want And Don't Want In My Next Digicam!
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Joe Farace • Oct 01, 2004 • 0 comments

Photos © 2004, Joe Farace, All Rights Reserved

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."--the late Douglas Adams

In last year's Shutterbug's Photography Buyer's Guide (do...
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Black & White And Infrared All Over; Don’t Overlook Your Digicam’s IR Capability
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Joe Farace • Jul 01, 2005 • 0 comments

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light except bad news, which obeys its own special laws."--Douglas Adams

A digicam's infrared capability is a feature that's sometimes overlooked when cameras are reviewed in Shutterbug and other publications. Lest you think digital IR capture is an esoteric pursuit, a Google search turned up...
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Black And White And Read All Over
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Joe Farace • Aug 01, 2003 • 0 comments

Digital Innovations

"Everything looks worse in black and white..."--Paul Simon's Kodachrome

I think Paul Simon is wrong, but...
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Blurring The Lines; Software Solutions For Soft Effects
Digital Darkroom, Digital Innovations, Software & Computers
Joe Farace • Mar 01, 2006 • 0 comments

"There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept." --Ansel Adams

It could be that the sainted Adams meant a fuzzy image of a brilliant concept, but we'll never know. This month's column looks at using imaging software to blur an image and was inspired by a letter from reader Carol Baker. As a movie buff you gotta know...
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