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Help!
Robert E. Mayer  |  Mar 01, 2005

Here is a quick tip list on letters for the HELP! desk:
Please confine yourself to only one question per letter. Both postal letters and e-mails are fine, although we prefer e-mail as the most efficient form of communication. Send your e-mail queries to editorial@shutterbug.com with Help in the subject header and your return e-mail address at the end of your message.

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Globetrotter
Globetrotter
Shooting Indoors; How To Deal With Low-Light Conditions
Rick Sammon  |  Mar 01, 2005

Photos © 2004, Rick Sammon, All Rights Reserved

When we travel, we often find photo opportunities indoors. The relatively low light and artificial light conditions of indoor shooting present special challenges; challenges we can meet if we take the time to make a few important camera settings.

In addition, as is the case with outdoor photography, it is...

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Sigma’s 24-60mm f/2.8 EX DG
Wide Zoom For Film, Moderate Wide Zoom For Digital
George Schaub  |  Mar 01, 2005

Note the "EX DG" appellation in this new Sigma lens. This signifies a lens that you can use for both film and digital photography, as opposed to Sigma's "EX DC" branding, which can only be used with digital SLRs. The difference is in the image circle each projects. Use a "DC" lens on a film camera and you'll have serious...

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Editor's Notes
Memory And The Medium
George Schaub  |  Mar 01, 2005

Memory is an odd process. Recollections can be triggered by a certain muscle movement, a dream, a flash of color or shape as we walk down the street, a shift in the wind or, more concretely, by a photographic image. In all, memory is an associative process, in that some catalyst seems to create a circuit in the mind that refers to something real, or imagined, in our past. We all...

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Digitally Optimized Zoom Lenses; Do They Really Make A Difference?
Peter K. Burian  |  Mar 01, 2005

All Photos © 2004, Peter K. Burian, All Rights Reserved

As digital SLR cameras have become more affordable the shift to digital capture has been rapid. Even the most conservative photographers who I know have added digital SLRs to their systems; others are seriously considering that step. Hence, it comes as no surprise to see an increasing number of new "digitally...

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Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations
Yes, But Is It Art? You Be The Judge
Joe Farace  |  Mar 01, 2005

"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence."--William Blake, 1790

At the unveiling of a $40,000 mural at Livermore, California's new public library, people were surprised when the artist misspelled the names of Einstein, Shakespeare, Van...

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Digital Help
Digital Help
Q&A For Digital Photography
David B. Brooks  |  Mar 01, 2005

Digital Help is designed to aid you in getting the most from your digital photography, printing, scanning, and image creation. Each month, David Brooks provides solutions to problems you might encounter with matters such as color calibration and management, digital printer and scanner settings, and working with digital photographic images with many different kinds of cameras and...

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Digital Darkroom
The Digital Darkroom
Contrast Control Masking; (Using Adobe’s Photoshop)
Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Mar 01, 2005

Years ago in the old-fashioned wet darkrooms we used to constantly fight the problem of originals that were too high in contrast to print well onto paper. Typically, slides and other chromes simply gave us fits. At that time, if you wanted to print slides onto Cibachrome (later called Ilfochrome), you just about had to perform some sort of contrast control masking in order to have...

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ColorVision’s Spyder2PRO Studio
Calibration For CRT And LCD Display
Jon Canfield  |  Mar 01, 2005

What happens when you go back to the drawing board and redesign a successful product? If you were to base your answer on some of the movie sequels that have come out, the results would not be good. Thankfully, Pantone ColorVision has avoided the Hollywood syndrome and come out with a real winner. The recently introduced new version of the popular Spyder hardware calibration system...

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Classic Camera Reviews
The Soho Reflex
An SLR With Swings And Tilts
Rick Shimonkevitz  |  Mar 01, 2005

Imagine a hand holdable single lens reflex camera that has front movements similar to a view camera to allow control of plane of focus. If you think that's a pretty modern concept, you are only about 100 years too late. The Soho Reflex camera, made from 1905 up to the 1940s, was just such an item. Manufactured by Kershaw of Leeds, England, and marketed under several...

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