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...price of pro-quality video technology is dropping fast. This MiniDV camcorder has separate imaging sensors for reds, greens and blues plus a 10x Leica zoom lens. panasonic.com...
...which brought back moments from the past decade more vividly than memory can. They were candid camera shots snapped by France's most distinguished documentary photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Unlike artier cameramen, Cartier-Bresson has never felt the need of a studio or a darkroom. He still reloads his Leica under the bed, washes his prints in the bathtub. 'Shooting a picture,' says he, 'is like shooting rabbit or partridge. Before shooting you think, you contemplate, you look, look, look, look. Then you shoot and get it' ... Last week Cartier-Bresson contemplated the windowed gorges of Manhattan ... He took...
...couple entered and tagging along camouflaged as their child," Booth reports. "It worked time and again and I got to study - close up - such marvels as Audemars Piguet, Longines and Vacheron et Constantin gold watches, emeralds as green as still water and as big as peas, and Rolliflex and Leica cameras with a shutter movement so silent you could not hear it. All of these I gazed at with the avidity of a magpie. At times, the palms of my hands actually itched with temptation and desire." He encounters a woman with bound feet, a waiter whose tongue...
...YORK CITY Leica's Digilux 2 ($1,850), sold at B&H Photo, may look retro, but it has all the features of a modern digital camera, including a 64-MB memory card and a rechargeable battery...
...right, Mr. DeMille, we're really ready for a close-up now. Panasonic has introduced the Lumix DMC-FZ10 4-megapixel camera ($600), a superzoom still camera that mimics camcorders in its ability to close in on shots. Its 12X-optical-zoom Leica lens lets you capture clearly the writing on the spine of a paperback 9 m away. Too much zoom can sometimes result in shaky pictures. To counteract that, Panasonic integrated an optical image stabilizer, technology commonly found only in camcorders. Stabilizer or no, it's still a challenge to shoot at great distances. That...