Search Details

Word: shooter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...great little shooter, one I'd rank up with the Sonys and Canons for consistency, speed and color reproduction. Unlike other cameras in this reasonably affordable range, it has wonderful flash coordination: where other cameras tend to drench people's faces with a bleaching blaze, the S1 seems to be more tame, or more responsive to the demands of the shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nikon CoolPix S1 | 6/1/2005 | See Source »

...Visible scene assistance is just one comfort for the timid shooter. The camera also boasts an automated red-eye removal tool. I couldn't totally test it because it happens on the fly, but I never saw red-eye during my test shooting. The D-Lighting feature brightens shots. This is an optional measure, one whose results you can preview before agreeing to do it. There's also a crop tool right on the camera. When reviewing a shot, zoom in to where you'd prefer it be bordered, then press down on the shutter. The camera will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nikon CoolPix S1 | 6/1/2005 | See Source »

...ways to tell stories. So in 1997 he joined an upstart game company in Seattle called Valve; Laidlaw had heard that he and the founder, Gabe Newell, might be thinking along the same lines. "We were going to take the idea of storytelling over to a straightforward first-person shooter [game] and see how far we could get with that," says Laidlaw. They got pretty far. The game they created was called Half-Life, and right from the beginning people could see it was a different sort of animal. The first few minutes had no action at all, just dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Larger Than Life: NOVELIST OF THE SCREEN | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

...Glenn is a real straight shooter,” says Columbia professor Eli M. Noam ’70. β€œHe is good to his word and respects faculty and their research...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Columbia Dean May Be Tapped | 5/11/2005 | See Source »

...display range from such low-tech items as a concrete bunker and a machine for filling sandbags at high speed to a nonlethal directed-energy weapon that can heat a human body to an unbearable temperature and an "acoustic sniper finder" that uses eight microphones to locate an enemy shooter based on the sound from his rifle shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playdate for the Pentagon | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

Previous | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | Next