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TIME has also managed some noteworthy Olympic feats. In its three issues covering the action, TIME has premiered a new system for transmitting color photographs that can reduce the time between shutter snap in the Los Angeles Coliseum and finished picture in TIME'S U.S. printing plants to as little as 6¼ hours. Immediately after an important shot, the film was processed and edited, then flown twelve miles by helicopter to Torrance, Calif., where Time Inc.'s corporate manufacturing and distribution division had installed a scanner to turn the pictures into digital signals. These were beamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 20, 1984 | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...automatic cameras ever. The T70, priced at $450, features three computer programs that adjust the camera for particular situations ranging from fast movement to long vistas. A liquid-crystal display on top of the T70 can tell the photographer 152 different pieces of information about the camera, including the shutter speed being used and the amount of film left. The shirt pocket-size MC, $280, focuses itself, automatically advances the film and rewinds it at the end of a roll...

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

...Oratorio of San Lorenzo in Palermo, Sicily, the chapel's caretaker watched in bewilderment as a cat scuttled into the sanctuary through a wide-open door. The building should have been secured against felines, and thieves as well. During the previous night, however, intruders had forced a shutter of one of the chapel windows. Once inside, they cut away the altarpiece with a razor blade and marched out the front door with their prize: an 8-ft. by 7-ft. canvas, the Nativity, painted by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in 1609. The uninsured masterwork was valued at $3 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Arts | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

Toyota showed several new models, including the SV-3, its first sports car since the 2000 GT in 1967. The company's FX1 car has glassed-in roof pillars and windshield wipers hidden under a sliding shutter. The doors tilt and glide out. It also has a voice-command system similar to Nissan's. At low speeds, half the engine shuts down to conserve fuel. Toyota was also showing off the TAC3, a sporty, four-wheel-drive car in which the driver sits in the middle, with passengers behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tokyo's Wonder Cars | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...freelance photographer is covering a revolutionary war in the Third World. Among his many expectations of discomfort, danger and the constant threat of death, he dares harbor only one decent hope: that in some unlikely 250th or 500th of a second his shutter will open and shut and almost by accident freeze an image that will make some human sense out of the anguish to which he is the world's paid witness...

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

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