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| Photo by James Brosher |
| Scott Myrick, right, director of the visual communications lab, helps lab assistant Jeremy Lacey put a new 300 Canon millimeter lens on a Canon body. |
The equipment includes three Canon 20D digital SLR cameras, a 300mm f2.8 telephoto lens, a 70-200mm f2.8 telephoto zoom lens, a 35-350mm f3.5-5.6 telephoto zoom lens, a 100mm f2.8 macro lens, a 28-35mm f2.8 zoom lens, and a 17-35mm f2.8 zoom lens.
Of the lenses, valued at about $9,000, one is an extreme telephoto lens designed for football and basketball photography and another is an extreme telephoto lens designed for soccer photography, associate professor Jim Kelly explained.
“All of these are professional quality lenses that had been used by CPS as loaners to working professionals while their own equipment was being repaired. They are all in good working shape,” Kelly said.
Kelly’s acquaintance with Matsumoto, who is based in Itasca, Ill., goes back to Kelly’s teaching days at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Matsumoto is an alumnus of the school.
“So, when I came over here, he wanted to help me with the program,” Kelly said. “It’s his idea. He kind of knows what would be useful and he provided it.”
This is Canon’s first equipment donation to the school, though the company did underwrite photojournalist Susan Meiselas’ visit here in February.
“It is a select and small group of universities that get this level of support,” Kelly.
According to Director of the Visual Communications Lab Scott Myrick, the school already had eight Nikon digital SLR cameras and no Canon-mount lenses for students to check out to use with personal cameras.
“So, the lenses are a huge help. They work great with the donated cameras and with cameras people bring from home,” Myrick said in an e-mail.
Students in photojournalism classes and upper-level multimedia classes can check out the cameras for several days at a time, Myrick said. He cautions that the lenses are too big to handle without a monopod, but the school has plenty of monopods to check out as well.
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