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Continuing his shutter diplomacy, Kennerly flew to Jerusalem, where he found Begin an equally receptive subject. He accompanied the Premier on visits to what the Israelis call the New Territories, sat in on his business conferences, and watched him relax with his family. Says Kennerly: "Both Begin and Sadat are consummate politicians. I think they would probably get along well-perhaps not politically, but personally...
...lights (see diagram) while, inside the camera, technicians fine-focus the image on a screen 3.9 meters behind the focal point of the lens. Next, they lower a huge sheet of standard Polaroid negative stock, hold it flat against the screen with a vacuum pump and trip the shutter, thus exposing the negative...
...have prevented archrival Eastman Kodak, the giant of U.S. photography with sales of $5.4 billion, from grabbing as much of the market as expected in its first year in the instant-camera field.* Polaroid's 1976 sales of $950 million missed the magic billion-dollar mark by a shutter click, and its first-quarter 1977 profits jumped 33% over a year earlier. Although Kodak's long-term outlook is good, the company's first-quarter net dropped 20% because of poor sales generally. Kodak has told 1,000 employees, mostly instant-film workers, that they will...
...clarity of registration in Calla han's pictures flows naturally from th camera's function as a precision instrument. Usually there is a sense of meditative arrest, as if the shutter really had stopped time, giving the images a most singular density. Callahan's visual world is not very busy. We are invited to scrutinize a nude body reduced to one exquisite line formed by the cleft of the buttocks and the thighs, against a white ground; and we do so with gratitude. If Ingres had been a photographer he might have arrived at images like Callahan...
...plastic Pronto will list for $66 but probably will be reduced by discounters to about $50-a third of the $150 that the highest priced SX-70 sells for at discount. Yet it does the same thing that the more expensive SX-70s do: at a touch of the shutter button, a white card is released that develops into a color picture before the viewer's eyes...