Photography by
David Cortner
  Sahara Desert 1973


Dennis
Dennis DiCicco having a fling.
Dennis is now a senior editor at Sky & Telescope magazine.


Dennis, controller
Thirty-plus Years of Photographic Progress.
Dennis DiCicco adjusting a camera controller. This contraption, showing its music box heritage, controlled 4 or 5 Hasselblads. Contact switches rode along the edge of several Masonite disks. Shallow notches triggered the cameras' shutters and motor-driven film advances. Geez, Dennis, why not just plug some CCD's into a notebook computer and sequence them with Maxim?

   
   



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