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Joe Farace  |  Dec 01, 2000  |  0 comments

When the outside temperature hit 100 yesterday, I knew it must be time to write my annual "stocking stuffer" column. The best stocking stuffers are relatively inexpensive, useful to the recipient, and small enough to fit in a stocking, but some of...

Joe Farace  |  Nov 01, 2000  |  0 comments

"To have a camera is to open your world, to take a bite out of a moment"
--Sharon J. Wohlmuth

In Shutterbug's Photography Buyer's Guide 2000, you'll find information on computer monitors...

Joe Farace  |  Oct 01, 2000  |  0 comments

I have a confession to make:
In all of the 50 plus years that I've been making images, I've never photographed
a resolution chart. I have always judged a lens or camera's performance
by how much I liked using it and how good the photographs looked. Ine...

Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 2000  |  0 comments

"What we are seeing now is the first wave of changes in our industry in which computers, telecommunications, and entertainment will merge"--Joe Farace, February, 1985

When I wrote the above statement...

Joe Farace  |  Aug 01, 2000  |  0 comments

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."--Wayne Gretsky

Back in the Cretaceous era while studying photography at the Maryland Institute of Art, I was privileged to have Jack Wilgus as an instructor. One of my fondest memories of...

Joe Farace  |  Jul 01, 2000  |  0 comments

I try to have fun with digital images every day. This usually involves manipulating a few images then making prints using different kinds of papers on whatever printer I'm currently testing. Right now, that's an Epson Stylus Photo 1270 whose...

Joe Farace  |  Jun 01, 2000  |  0 comments

It makes no difference if
you take pictures with a Pentax K-1000 and paste them into an album
or capture images using an Epson 850Z digital camera and place them
in an eBooks digital album or on the web atPhotoPoint.co...

Joe Farace  |  May 01, 2000  |  0 comments

Digital Innovations

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

I'm often asked by readers about the specifications for the "ideal digital...

Joe Farace  |  Apr 01, 2000  |  0 comments

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers," Thomas Watson, chairman IBM, 1943

Tom Watson's statement shows that predicting the future of computing is more a matter of...

Joe Farace  |  Mar 01, 2000  |  0 comments

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...

Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 2000  |  2 comments

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...

Joe Farace  |  Dec 01, 1999  |  0 comments

This year, more and more people will be doing shopping for that perfect holiday gift by using the Internet. Why not? It's the best place available to find a state of the art gift for your favorite digital imager--or maybe even yourself. A web search...

Joe Farace  |  Oct 01, 1999  |  0 comments

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...

Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 1999  |  0 comments

To upgrade, or not to upgrade--that
is the question."--With apologies to William Shakespeare's
Hamlet

There comes a time in your
digitalimagin...

Joe Farace  |  Aug 01, 1999  |  0 comments

"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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