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Canon’s EOS-1Ds Mark III; The Big Kahuna Has Landed
Pro-Quality Digital SLRs
Joe Farace • Apr 01, 2008 • 0 comments

Twenty-one megapixels. Think about it. Once the exclusive domain of those Tiffany-priced medium format digital backs, that same kind of high-end resolution is now possible with a D-SLR, albeit an expensive one. While it has the same $7999 price as its 16.7-megapixel predecessor, Canon's 21-megapixel EOS-1Ds Mark III could hardly be called inexpensive, but to pros who need...
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Capturing Images In Camera And The Digital Darkroom; My Way, Your Way, Or The IR Way
Digital Innovations
Joe Farace • Sep 01, 2007 • 0 comments

"No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it." --Charles M. Schulz

After recently acquiring a Canon EOS Rebel XTi, I was able to retire (thanks, Gary) the EOS D60 I've been using for digital infrared photography and start using a camera with a 2.5" LCD screen that delivers 10.1-megapixel resolution. To convert the...
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Capturing The Christmas Spirit; A Holiday Collection Of Clever & Colorful Websites
Web Profiles
Joe Farace • Dec 01, 2007 • 2 comments

"At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year."--Thomas Tusser

Christmas seems to have gone from a time of peace and love to one of controversy about how it's celebrated. I tend to think of the holiday in much the way the late Will Eisner expressed in his preface to The Christmas Spirit, a collection of stories featuring...
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Carl Zeiss Planar T* 85mm f/1.4 And Planar T* 50mm f/1.4; Lenses For Low-Light Photography And More…
Lenses
Joe Farace • Aug 01, 2009 • 0 comments

There is no doubt that Carl Zeiss is one of the magical names in the world of optics and so the introduction of the Zeiss ZE lenses for analog and digital cameras is big news.
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Carl Zeiss’ Distagon T* 18mm f/3.5 And Distagon T* 21mm f/2.8 Lenses; Open Wide, Wider Still…That’s It!
Lenses
Joe Farace • Aug 01, 2010 • 0 comments

When it comes to lenses, the name Carl Zeiss is synonymous with optical perfection or as they say around the Hallmark store, “when you care enough to shoot the very best.” Zeiss continues to expand its line of interchangeable lenses for Canon, Nikon, and Pentax cameras to include two new wide-angle lenses, the Distagon T* 18mm f/3.5 and Distagon T* 21mm f/2.8.

The...
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Casio’s EXILIM Pro EX-F1; Digital Still Or Video Camera?
Pro-Quality Digital SLRs
Joe Farace • Sep 01, 2008 • 0 comments

The EXILIM Pro EX-F1 is the second Casio digital camera I've ever tested. I wrote about that first one, the QV-10, for a computer magazine back in 1995 and boy, things have really changed. The Pro EX-F1 marks a departure for the company from its line of stylish point-and-shoot digicams. Instead, it's a capable electronic viewfinder (EVF) digicam that delivers...
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Celebrating Camera Day: Racing Around The Web In June
Web Profiles
Joe Farace • Jul 23, 2012 • Published: Jun 01, 2012 • 7 comments
While National Photography Month may be the entire month of May, Camera Day is celebrated on June 29th. That day is also the 126th anniversary of the birth of James Van Der Zee, the African-American photographer of the Harlem Renaissance that occurred during the 1920s and ’30s. It’s also a day when photographers of all ages and abilities should venture forth into the world to capture all the beauty that surrounds us. Follow the examples set by the four photographers who are featured in this month’s column and I’m sure they’ll serve as great sources of inspiration for your images.
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Celebrating Independence Day
Web Profiles
Joe Farace • Sep 04, 2012 • Published: Jul 01, 2012 • 1 comments
This month marks the anniversary of a column that began in July 1999 as Website of the Month and has evolved into Web Profiles. Along the way, I’ve tried to include tips and trends to help readers improve their own web-based activities. Take Pinterest (http://pinterest.com), for example. It’s a virtual pinboard that lets you organize and share images, among other stuff, with people on the web. It’s like Twitter (www.twitter.com) for your photographs! I’m going to give it a try and so should you. In the meantime, I’ll continue to seek out new websites, to boldly go…sorry, I got carried away. I try to include at least one Shutterbug reader’s site in each episode but I can’t always tell that from your site, so click the Contact button on my website, www.joefarace.com, and tell me about it. You could find yourself featured in an upcoming column.
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Changes In Attitude, Changes In Media; Even More Readers’ Websites
Web Profiles
Joe Farace • Feb 01, 2010 • 0 comments

“With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.”—Jimmy Buffett

This issue will be on newsstands around the 12th day of the New Year and subscribers should see it a few days earlier, so it’s time to roll out my 2010 web plans, starting with my blog. It will become inactive or as Dennis Lehane put it “gone...
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Computer Software & Hardware; To Err Is Human But To Foul Things Up Requires A Computer
Digital Innovations
Joe Farace • Mar 01, 2011 • 0 comments

“Computers = Ticket to Hell.”—from an old Alien Skin Software T-shirt

I’ve always been an ambidextrous computer user, having a Windows system on my left and a Mac OS computer on my right. That Windows computer handles Internet surfing for Web Profiles and e-mail. It’s also where I test the $29 “just as good as Photoshop but Windows-only” imaging...
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