Afghan photographers use box cameras from a bygone age

AP Worldstream;  March 14, 2004 ;   MATTHEW PENNINGTON, Associated Press Writer;   696 words ......black and white prints _ actually processed by hand inside the box cameras _ suffice for slapping on official forms and identity cards...sprouting up in the city's photo shops, time is catching up on the box cameras. Visiting foreigners often buy them as souvenirs. The cameras...

Senate backs 'cop in the box' cameras.(News)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  March 30, 2006 ;   Spoto, Cara Patterson, John;   288 words ......soon could be stationed at railroad crossings, under a proposed law approved by the state Senate. The so-called cop in the box cameras are intended to prevent another crash like the one that occurred in November at a Metra crossing in Elmhurst. Drivers caught...

Expert tips on lenses: selecting properly, focusing accurately, and...

Security Distributing & Marketing;  February 1, 2006 ;   Engebretson, Joan;   787 words ......part. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DOME OR BOX CAMERAS One of the reasons lenses sometimes...Depending on the installation, traditional box cameras, which require the purchase of a separate...is the type of mount. Most of today's box cameras are CS-mount, although C-mount lenses...

Quietly (and widely) influential Stockbroker-turned-photographer with ties...

Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.;  August 11, 2006 ;   Pat Davidson Reef;   660 words ......take photographs. During the 1890s, as many as 500,000 Kodak box cameras were sold in the United States. Initially, serious photographers were unimpressed with the quality of box cameras. But as these cameras were improved, photographers came to...

Software trains on use of cameras.(MARKETPLACE)

Security Distributing & Marketing;  February 1, 2006 ;     80 words ......flexibility to adjust parameters and view a real-time simulation. The software includes all of TOA's combination dome and box cameras introduced before November 2005. It can be downloaded for free at http://www.toaelectronics.com/cctv.asp. TOA Electronics...

Wheel of fashion.(Features)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  January 13, 2006 ;     428 words ......sweaters, it was a vital part of the city's shopping experience, a favourite with housewives who had been buying their prams, box cameras and tea sets from its catalogue for many years. The store opened in 1955, as Liverpool was still recovering from the battering...

Developing a love for old cameras Dick Shaffer has 300 or 400 antique...

Dayton Daily News;  July 19, 2007 ;   William G. Schmidt Contributing Writer;   349 words ...GERMANTOWN -- Dick Shaffer collects cameras with some heft. Wooden behemoths that take equally substantial tripods to hold them; box cameras resembling bricks in shape and weight; and cameras whose bellows fold out in beautiful precision. Though you might find Shaffer...

diverting portraits of times past

The Sunday Herald;  March 11, 2001 ;   Barry Didcock;   305 words ......Breitenbach's pre-war work is a self-portrait. It's taken into a mirror and shows an impish man peering into one of those box cameras that looks like it could play sea shanties in the right hands. In Breitenbach's, of course, it simply took pictures - half...

Events; Ideas for fun days out for all the family.(Features)

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  March 15, 2003 ;     244 words ...Saturday, March 15 GHOST BOX CAMERAS, 10.30am-12.30pm, 1.30pm-3.30pm Low Parks Museum, 129 Muir Street, Hamilton. 01698 328 232. Workshop for eight- 14 year olds creating...

100 Years Ago, 1906

Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.;  July 14, 2006 ;     290 words ......most any train at this time of year, will wonder at the variety and number of "snap shot boxes." The old time bulky view and box cameras are seldom seen, and by far the greater portion of those now carried are of the pocket, folding variety. This change is brought...

Century of fingerprinting

The Press;  June 21, 2003 ;   COURTNEY, Dave;   304 words ......patterns have stayed the same, the technology to find fingerprints, read them, and match them has leapt ahead. It has moved from box cameras, magnifying glasses, dust and brush, to lasers, computers, chemicals and ultraviolet light. In spite of the changes, the fingerprint...

Cameras offer low-light sensitivity.(Products & Services)

Security Distributing & Marketing;  May 1, 2007 ;     135 words ...Honeywell's L-Series line of cameras come in a variety of standard and high-resolution box cameras for applications with normal or low-light conditions. Two black and white cameras are available for basic surveillance, and can...

The Limits Of Infinity

The Washington Post;  April 6, 1990 ;   Carl Kramer;   635 words ......different places but they still are not sharp. The sales clerk said we are expecting too much from the camera, but even simple box cameras made sharp pictures of distant scenes, didn't they? A. You are not expecting too much from that camera. When I tested an Infinity...

BOOKS FULL OF CHARACTERS, STORIES FROM CITY'S PAST.(CITY LIFE)

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  May 22, 1997 ;     720 words ...Byline: JIM SCHLOSSER Walter Sills' brain functions like those Kodak box cameras of his youth. His God-given shutter has recorded and stored mental images of Greensboro's urban past. Nothing grainy or blurry...

Yellow-box cameras to trap drivers.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  October 16, 2001 ;   Massey, Ray;   407 words ...Byline: RAY MASSEY BRITAIN'S hard-pressed motorists are to be spied on by even more cameras, it emerged yesterday. They already face being caught on film for speeding, using bus lanes, parking illegally and failing to pay their road tax. Now councils plan to install CCTV cameras at yellow-box