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...Germany's Agfa line has a standout offering in a new automatic "66," a 120-film camera with a built-in light meter that computes the correct exposure time, then sets the shutter to the correct speed automatically. Price...
...woods near Saratoga Springs, Playwright Thornton Wilder sat composing a eulogy to the late Thomas Mann. As he wrote, a small balding man, quiet and sharp-eyed as a young deer, moved among the trees, observing and pausing to focus his Leica. The click of the shutter among the bird sounds and leaf rustles was inaudible. Later Wilder wrote in the photographer's memento book: "To Alfred Eisenstaedt-not only a master photographer but a presence so tactful and soothing that I found myself working -really working-and working extra well while he went about his task...
...quarter of a century, Eisie, a German G.I. in World War1 and postwar button-and-belt salesman in Berlin, has photographed the great and near-great of the world. "I love to take pictures of people," he says. "The important thing about photography is not clicking the shutter but clicking with the subject...
...uncomprehendingly scalds him in the bath ("Honorable tepid bath . . . could not have been more than 113°''). There is a geisha who saves the hotel's honor by sacrificing her own ("I whispered only these words: seventy-eight yen fifty . . . It was the price of Kodak No. 3A. anastigmatic lens, shutter for both time and instantaneous exposures"). Time has retouched Author Raucat's Japan without cropping any essentials in his cultural snapshots. Few writers have probed more skillfully behind the deep bow and the polite smile for that web of obligations which keep the Japanese in a fine sweat between...
...expert advice for a man plagued by bats in his window shutters (a bat expert advised that he use a broom and let more light in between the shutter leaves...