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...still photographer, however, works within the range of practicality, not possibility. Rather than making a movie and then selecting from thousands of feet of film, he chooses the critical moment in his mind and captures it on film by releasing the shutter at the right time. The 35-mm camera made it practical to compromise between these two extremes. The photographer may make several exposures of one scene and make his final selection again from the film. This is usually the case, and so critics have said that good pictures are just luck. If you take enough pictures, they...
...film, the Rollei 35, priced just under $125. Other tiny cameras have been on the market for years, but they sacrificed quality by using miniature film. The Rollei 35 is hardly bigger than a king-size pack of cigarettes, weighs 14 oz., comes with a built-in meter, a shutter speed up to 1/500th of a second, and a 40-mm. f3.5 Zeiss Tessar lens...
...REFLEX CAMERAS. The single-lens reflex camera, the most popular machine among amateurs, was displayed in many new varieties. Zeiss unveiled its $500 single-lens Contarex Electronic with an electronically controlled shutter, and the $100 Icarex 126 equipped to use easy-loading Kodapak film. Rollei, which made the first twin-lens reflex in 1929, came out with the single-lens SL66 with a tilting lens plane that improves depth of field focusing...
...from his 1,728 assignments for LIFE in the past 30 years, the record astonishes both by its variety-How could any man have been in so many crucial places?-and its perception. The marvel is finally not the Leica that Eisenstaedt used, but the personal eye behind the shutter...
...outsider know what is going on inside, he designed the Goddard Library as a chassis with each functioning space unit attached, much as a hotrod engine proclaims its parts by exposing its chrome-plated carburetors and exhausts. Black metal snorkels funnel air in and out; angled concrete slabs shutter the windows from the sun; chimney-like staircases take the flow of students into the open bookstacks. "Architecture is not a commodity for those who can afford it," Johansen maintains. "It is a vehicle by which an architect explains his society. There must be a new architecture for our experience...