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...success of Canon has been a blow to Nikon, its chief rival. Canon now produces 31% of Japan's output of single-lens reflex cameras, in contrast to Nikon's 16%. Moreover, Canon draws raves from some professional photographers, particularly for the sharpness of its lenses. Canon also wins high marks for its field service, and its technicians are known for driving all night or hopping aboard airplanes to come to the aid of professional photographers with broken gear. In the prestige race, though, Nikon still has an edge with many professionals. Says Nikon Managing Director Hiroshi Moromisato...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Picture Perfect | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

Canon's factories are models of efficiency. Its main camera plant, situated 150 miles north of Tokyo at the base of snow-capped Azuma Mountain, is so automated that certain sections are staffed only by robots. Most of the factory's 2,000 employees, 60% of them women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Picture Perfect | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

Bentkowski sums up the total effect of the section: "A photograph, being immediate and specific, theoretically cannot be an abstraction. But these pictures, combined with our visual memories of events from magazines, newspapers and TV, take on the power of abstraction. They tell, in capsule, the story of 1983, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Dec. 26, 1983 | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

Considering that most of the movie takes place in a stygian cave, The Keep looks gorgeous. Slow motion and pixilation enhance the spooky mood; a telephoto lens turns the castle into a pointillist magic mountain. It is cinematic balm when a fantasy movie pays informed tribute to the decorative arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Santa's Mixed Bag of Celluloid | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

A post-Hemingway adventurer like Russel Price (Nick Nolte) does not, of course, permit himself to articulate such aspiring thoughts. With his thick voice, his beefy former jock's build and his wary-passive manner, Nolte plays Price (very authentically) as a man who is all reflexes of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Losing Big | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

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