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...months. Three inches have been my staple, and now I'm going for four." In New York, Photographer Camilla ("Cookie") Smith had one made up for her brother at Christmas time, has had so many requests since then that she has temporarily shut her shutter. At $10 each, she is selling 40 "limited-edition," 41-in., signed ties each week. Says she of her sudden success: "People used to get ties like these for 25? in thrift shops but now the shops have been picked clean, and the tie manufacturers are just beginning to think big again...
...distractions or include balancing space; selects a range of focus which best subordinates background to the subject; and controls exposure and lighting to balance highlights with shadows or to discard unnecessary texture as in this silhouette. And that control which is above all serviced for the photographer is the shutter please. A critical sense of timing in conjunction with variable shutter speeds enables him to freeze his subject in its endless progression of movement...
...term, dating back to a 17th century British campaign in Holland, is a corruption of a Dutch phrase meaning "turn off the taps." Before it was blown up into a musical extravaganza, the tattoo was merely the nightly drum signal beaten through the streets to shutter the bars and steer the troops back to their quarters...
...first command was sent when Mariner was still 107,000 miles away from Mars. This turned on the camera's shutter mechanism, started the scan platform searching with a wide-angle sensor for light from Mars, and turned on the tape recorder's power. Everything was going unbelievably well. Newsmen and families of the scientists gathered in JPL's Von Kármán Auditorium to await the cryptic reports from the primary tracking stations at Johannesburg in South Africa, Woomera in Australia and Goldstone in California...
Taking the picture itself is all but foolproof. Upon being loaded, both the Kodak and Rapid cassettes automatically adjust the camera for the speed-rating of the film being used. From there, automatic electric eyes take over, set optimum combination of shutter speed and lens opening for the amount of light. If there is not enough light, pointers pop into the view finder to tell the photographer to keep his shutter closed. Instead of bulky flash attachments, most of the new automated cameras have miniature, built-in flash units that disappear when...