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Until the spring of 1995, photo editors relied on old-fashioned "screen" technology to convert photographs into black-and-white halftone patterns that could be printed onto newsprint. With the purchase of a scanner, which digitizes photographs into computer data, the paper took another step toward complete digital production...
Editors refined the process later that year with the acquisition of a scanner that could accept photo negatives, eliminating the need to develop prints...
...Getting a negative scanner easily cut an hour or two off production from a photo standpoint," says Tara Arden-Smith '96, an editor...
...1920s Weegee was working for a photo agency that supplied the morning papers with shots of arrests, car accidents, fires and such from the night before. In the mid-'30s he became a free-lancer. Equipped with a police-radio scanner in his car and the most wonderfully named of all old cameras, the Speed Graphic, he chased down the city at its most scabrous, a place where the chief pastimes were groping and bloodletting and where the main thing to remember was that only the strong survive. Eventually he was also a contributor to the liberal daily PM, which...
...reported that Boris Yeltsin was undergoing a normal follow-up to his 1996 heart-bypass surgery. In fact, he underwent a sophisticated new heart scan called a C.T.-angiography, a painless, noninvasive test that is less risky than a conventional angiogram and that can be performed only with a scanner created by Imatron, a San Francisco-based company. Radiologists at the Moscow Cardiology Center had just begun learning to use the machine when Imatron began getting E-mails from them: they wanted to use the scanner--which can tell if a bypass graft has closed up--on Yeltsin. Imatron stepped...