After the installation, controllers at the Space Telescope Operations Control Center at Goddard Space Flight Center sent commands to the camera to perform an aliveness test, which passed, indicating the camera was installed correctly.
After completion of command processing, the camera controller re-enters the wait state in order to accept new commands.
Within a narrative framework that might have seemed schematic in another filmmaker's hands, he allows his characters and their sad, often solitary experiences to command the attention of the camera and the viewer in turn.
Mr. Burtynsky has a keen eye for theatrical form and color, as well as a superb command of the large-format camera's capacity to record detail.
The nearly pointillist vibrancy of their on-the-road karaoke story, "Jackpot," grew out of his masterly command of the digital video camera and his willingness to use it for its own strengths.
Although this show, devoted to images taken mostly in China in the 1990's and accompanied by a book, "China: The Photographs of Lois Conner" (Callaway), displays Ms. Conner's superb command of the unwieldy banquet camera, it accentuates the advantages and disadvantages of this format.
This will allow you to select an aperture for the lens (you usually do this by turning the secondary command dial on the front of the camera; if you don't have one of these, use the main command dial on the rear), and the camera will select a shutter speed for a correct exposure.
Although the storytelling is fairly mundane, there are committed performances from Rahim and Michael Lonsdale, both of whom continue to command the camera's attention.
This is nonsense on stilts, especially given that you can shift the program using the main command dial on the rear of the camera.
From her perch, she wordlessly commanded not only her portion of the camera but also the throngs of Democratic representatives seated in her sightline.
