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Article: Digital Summer Camp: where educators go to get educated about photographic education.
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- Studio Photography & Design
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- March 1, 2005
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The campers who sign up for Digital Summer Camp don't expect to sleep in bunk beds or go on nature walks. They're educators and digital imaging experts who get together to exchange information and ideas. Their mission: help schools to address the crisis in photographic education brought about by the incredibly rapid transition from silver halide to digital imaging, the greatest paradigm shift in the history of photography.
These four-day sessions, coordinated by the MAC Group (Mamiya, Leaf, Profoto, Sekonic, PocketWizard, X-Rite), Epson America, and Adobe, are essentially forums for developing and imparting survival skills--the kind needed to keep photographic ...