PHOTON

October 1995


Suza Scalora's Mythopoeia
The October printed edition contains a seven-page portfolio in full color of New York fashion photographer and bodypaint artist Suza Scalora's incredible fantasy portrait/nudes, with short text. You can visit her Web site directly via this link. This is the first major folio we have featured in print as a direct result of contact through WWW. Please return to Photon after you've visited Mythopoeia!
The Fall Guy
It's illegal to call yourself a photographer in Germany unless you are college qualified - so British migrant Andrew Cowin calls himself a photo-designer and is one of the country's top greetings cards, calendar and stock agency photographers. Here's his portfolio of Germany in the fall
Why buy a light meter?
We're always getting e-mail questions about light metering. Here Derek Watkins answers a few common questions - like why a hand-held meter is needed when your camera has a perfectly good TTL meter to start with!
The Zone VI Enlarger
Zone VI products have been popula rin the States for many years but are new to Europe. Les McLean reviews their flagship, a 5 x 7 inch cold cathode variable contrast enlarger for fine art multigrade printing
The Bronica 40mm f/4 PS lens
A personal review by Harry Kitchen of one the lowest-cost, high-quality superwide lenses available for a mainstream 6 x 6cm rollfilm SLR system
The Cash Column
Lee Frost and Steve Bavister have a regular page in Photon's printed edition just for those setting out to earn money by freelancing
The Xyratex Datablazer
David Kilpatrick reviews the dockable high speed hard disk drive from IBM spin-off Xyratex, which offers hot-swapping on a live SCSI bus of large, fast hard drive volumes
Photo and Imaging Expo, London, October 26-29
A brief word about the PMA biennial European exhibition now held at Olympia in London, together with a straight text listing of exhibitors for anyone planning to visit
News items
The Editor puts his new FileMaker Pro news database system into use by providing a massive scrolling list of press release news