Joe Farace

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Safe Computing
How To Avoid Catching A Virus
Pro Techniques
Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 1999  |  0 comments

Computer viruses are small, invasive programs written by malevolent and misanthropic misfits that are designed to create havoc within your computer system. You get computer viruses in the same way that you catch the human variety; through contact with...

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Samsung’s Digimax Pro815; Not For Pros, But For Everyone
Joe Farace  |  Jul 01, 2006  |  0 comments

Samsung's Digimax Pro815 features several digital camera firsts, including the world's longest optical zoom lens--and it's a Schneider, too--and the largest LCD preview screen. It's all wrapped up in a Mad Max-design that looks like a digital SLR, except it's not. The Digimax Pro815 is an 8-megapixel fixed lens camera that provides three...

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Samsung’s GX-1S; The K-Mount Revolution Continues
DSLR News, DSLR Reviews, News
Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 2006  |  0 comments

It seems obvious that being part of a group is better than going it alone against the Canon and Nikon digital SLR juggernaut. The K-mount group now joins the Four Thirds alliance in competition with The Big Two. Developed jointly with Pentax Imaging (www.pentaximaging.com), Samsung's GX-1S digital SLR features a...

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Scanners
Models From Every Film Format
Show Reports
Joe Farace  |  Jun 01, 2004  |  0 comments

Konica Minolta's DiMAGE Scan Dual IV 35mm and Advanced Photo System (optional) film scanner is a successor to the DiMAGE Scan Dual III and uses a high-performance, three-line color 3200dpi CCD sensor to deliver a 4.8 dynamic range, 3200dpi scan in 21 seconds per image via its USB 2.0...

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Scans, Scanning, & Scanners
Turning Your Pix Into Pixels
Digital Darkroom
Joe Farace  |  Jun 01, 1999  |  0 comments

After desktop printers, one of the most popular digital imaging products that Shutterbug readers ask me about is scanners. Typically, these aspiring digital imagers want to get started digitizing the slides and negative they've been shooting for many...

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Searching For Website Perfection: And It’s Groundhog Day, Too!
Web Profiles
Joe Farace  |  Mar 12, 2013  |  First Published: Feb 01, 2013  |  1 comments
Never was there a time when it was so easy or inexpensive to create a great-looking website than right now. I created my own site (www.joefarace.com) using a WordPress template from Obox (www.obox-design.com) that’s hosted on GoDaddy.com and the whole magilla cost a little over $100—along with lots of my own time. What about your site? If you read Web Profiles regularly you know that from time to time I like to feature Shutterbug readers and if you would like to see your website or blog featured here, click my site’s Contact button and tell me about it.
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Searching The Web So You Don’t Have To
Web Profiles
Joe Farace  |  Apr 23, 2013  |  First Published: Mar 01, 2013  |  1 comments
I said it last month but it bears repeating: “Never was there a time when it was so easy or inexpensive to create a great-looking website than right now.” Yet one emerging trend is to pack as much text onto the opening screen as possible and if a picture must be used it should be tiny and maybe show a portrait of the photographer. There’s an old joke whose punch line is, “First, you have to get their attention.” That’s true of websites as well. That landing page should be your signature image—that gasp factor—that makes the viewer look, linger, and want to see more. Give it a try.
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Service Bureaus
How To Avoid Output Problems
Digital Darkroom
Joe Farace  |  Mar 01, 2000  |  0 comments

Service bureau is a term left over from the bad old days when few people could actually afford to own a computer. Instead, many of us had to take our data--usually in punched card form--to companies who, for a fee, would process the data using their large...

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Setting Up Your Digital Darkroom
Computer Specs To Get You On The Road
Digital Darkroom
Joe Farace  |  Dec 01, 2003  |  0 comments

A few years ago I sold all my traditional darkroom equipment, lock, stock, and tongs. After sitting untouched in my new home's basement for several years, I decided it all had to go. I loaded enlarger, lenses, carriers, and trays into my car, and took them to a local photo show and sold...

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Sharing The Love For Photography: Give Something Back
Photo Accessory News, Photo Accessory Reviews, Software News, Software Reviews
Joe Farace  |  Dec 06, 2013  |  First Published: Nov 01, 2013  |  0 comments

Shortly after I moved into my former home, there was a knock at the door. Standing in front of me was an 8-year-old girl who lived down the street. “I’m selling note cards,” she told me, “I made the pictures.” A second look showed subjects a kid might shoot but others demonstrated that she was thinking about the photographs before making them. I bought several note cards and asked about her camera, which turned out to be borrowed. With her grandmother’s permission I gave her an old, unused digital point-and-shoot. The girl loved the camera and was inspired to keep making photographs and we talked from time to time about her aspirations. Today she’s a young woman with professional ambitions.

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