Word: shuttered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aluminum-cased affair which was taken to the bottom by iron ballast attached to a block of rock salt. An extending "trigger" rod stopped the camera at the correct height above the bottom for proper focus, and in doing so automatically set off a flash bulb and snapped the shutter. When the salt dissolved, the camera was freed from the ballast and bobbed to the surface...
Died. Edward Bausch, 89, famed optical manufacturer (Bausch & Lomb) and inventor; after long illness; in Rochester, N.Y. His iris diaphragm shutter made the snapshot camera practical...
...when the papers called around for their pictures, an embarrassed OWI spokesman stammered something about "mechanical difficulties," finally admitted that its man had been so excited at seeing China's famed First Lady that he had forgotten to open his camera's shutter. The Chicago Times published a one-column square in solid black, gloatingly labeled it: "OWI Photo...
Very much worthwhile, however, are the views of Leathernecks in training. The Marines have class, and it shows at every click of the camera shutter-in the way they handle their grunting green tanks, the symphonic grace of their close-order drill, the impressive torso power of their mass setting-up exercises. But it shows best in one chance shot of a nameless Marine, at liberty, decked out in blue & scarlet, sauntering along with the easy, uncoiled assurance of a fighting man who knows no one can lick...
...greatest achievement in photography since George Eastman pioneered and introduced the first black and white roll film in 1889-" With this demure panchromatic blush Eastman Kodak Co. last week announced a new, simple film with which any dub shutter-snapper can obtain full color prints instead of black-&-whites from his negatives. The new film (called "Kodacolor") differs from former color films in that it makes a transparent negative from which prints can easily be made on paper.* As a negative, not only are its light-&-shade effects reversed but its colors appear complementary to those of nature...