July - August 2019

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Film and digital insights and equipment for photography enthusiasts

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To Have And To Hold
You probably won’t be surprised to learn that I absolutely love magazines. It all started from when I started earning pocket money and, as with a great many of my vintage growing up in the UK, purchases were driven by hobbies. Just in my case there w
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Profoto Adds X Factor To A1 On-camera Flash
WITH THE ONGOING demise of big studio flash systems, Profoto’s decision to move into making compact, portable lighting now looks nothing less than inspired. The Swedish-based company has introduced an upgraded version of its A1 on-camera flash – call
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Art And Soul
BACK IN EARLY 2017 Fujifilm launched its GF mount mirrorless digital medium format camera system, and it was immediately obvious it would revive what had been a sector in serious decline. Since then the original GFX 50S has been joined by the more co
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Fujifilm Launches Pro Support Program
launched a professional support program for photographers which provides a number of services, including complementary telephone and email support, equipment check-ups and cleaning, express repairs and emergency equipment loans. Fujifilm Professional
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Fujifilm Makes 100 MP Affordable, Flexible And Portable
AFTER A DEVELOPMENT announcement at the 2018 Photokina, Fujifilm has launched its 100 megapixels GFX digital medium format mirrorless camera. The GFX 100 is a very different design from the existing GFX 50S, with dual handgrips and dual batteries, bu
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Tamron Offers Practicality In New Mid-range Zoom
LENS ‘EXOTICA’ IS very fashionable at the moment, but Tamron has opted for a more sober approach with its new A043 model zoom for the Canon EF and Nikon F mounts. It’s a 35-150mm f2.8-4.0 Di series (for full-35mm D-SLRs) zoom which spans medium wide-
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Dji Is Down To Earth With New Actioncam
LEADING CAMERA DRONE maker DJI has come down to earth for its next venture, a rugged actioncam to compete with GoPro’s products. Makes sense, as the new Osmo Action incorporates a number of DJI’s camera drone technologies, including advanced image st
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Panasonic Announces Third Lumix S Body… And It Records 6k Video
PANASONIC HAS REVEALED it will launch a third Lumix S camera body, which will be available locally in the spring. The Lumix DC-S1H is, of course, a full-35mm format mirrorless camera, but will be the world’s first with 6K/24p video recording in the 3
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Canon Debuts First Rf Lens With ‘Br’ Optics
ATTHETIME it unveiled its second RF mount mirrorless camera body the EOS RP, Canon also revealed its plans for six new RF lenses, all scheduled for launch sometime this year. The first of these is the RF 85mm f1.2L USM which is designed to make the m
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PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
Current to 21 July: Exhibition. Street Photography 1930s – 1960s. Photographs drawn from private collections documenting Sydney’s busy streets shown alongside contemporary street photography by photomedia artist Anne Zahalka. At the Museum Of Sydney,
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New Canon Entry-level D-slr Has 4k Video
THE LAUNCH OF a new D-SLR is increasingly becoming a cause for celebration these days, even if it is essentially only an upgrade of an existing model. The new Canon EOS 200D Mark II (EOS 250D in some markets) is the first new D-SLR since Nikon’s D350
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Leica Limited Editions Celebrate Bauhaus… And Lenny Kravitz
LIMITED EDITION LEICAS seem to coming thick and fast at the moment and there’s now another two for you to consider. The first is a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the famous Bauhaus between-the-wars German arts movement which started in 1919.
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Get Stuck With Celly
Accessory company Celly – which is based just outside Milan – has been making gadgets for mobile phones for many years, but now has some interesting products for compact cameras such as video actioncams. At the top of the list is the Squiddy, so-name
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Pink Lady® Food Photographer Of The Year 2019
Chinese photographer Jianhui Liao has been judged the overall winner in the Pink Lady® Food Photographer Of The Year 2019 competition, the world’s leading celebration of food photography and film-making. The winning photograph – titled Cauldron Noodl
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Supermodel
BODYSHELL: Magnesium alloy covers with full sealing (at 95 points) against dust and moisture plus insulation to allow shooing at temperatures down to -10 degrees Celsius. A ‘double structure’ construction isolates key internal components from externa
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Seeing The Forest And The Trees
The Sylvan Forest is located near the northern end of the famous Routeburn Track, just beyond Glenorchy on the South Island of New Zealand. A small Department Of Conservation Reserve camping area is situated adjacent to the Routeburn North Branch whe
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Making Movies
Fujifilm hasn’t taken the X-T30 quite as far as a video camera as the X-T3, but that would have been giving too much away. Nevertheless, the T30 represents a big advance over the T20 when it comes to shooting video and certainly means that the Fujifi
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Vital Statistics
Type: Enthusiast-level digital mirrorless camera with Fujifilm X bayonet lens mount. Focusing: TTL automatic hybrid system using phase-difference detection and contrast-detection measurements. 425 measuring points (25x17 pattern) in total, giving 100
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From Darkroom To Digital
Things were very different back in the early 1980s, when I was a regular contributor to Camera Craft (now Australian Camera). Although the first digital camera had been shown in 1975 (by, incidentally, Kodak), the technology was still a long way from
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2019 Sony World Photography Awards
Organised by the World Photography Organisation, the annual Sony World Photography Awards is now the world’s biggest and most diverse photography competition. This year, it again attracted a huge number of entries – 326,000 in total – and these photo
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The Making Of The Fujifilm Gfx 100
Over the next couple of months somebody somewhere is going to buy a Fujinon GF 100-200mm f5.6 R LM OIS WR zoom that contains a very special lens element. It was cleaned personally by yours truly, and passed the critical inspection that would enable i
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SECOND FIDDLES… AND LOST OPPORTUNITIES LEICA’S 35mm SLRS
Alegendary chapter in the story of Leica concerns the time when it was seriously considering ending production of its M series 35mm rangefinder camera line. The year was 1974 and Leica – without any Leitz family involvement in the business for the fi
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The R8’s Secrets Revealed
In early May 1995 I was visiting Leica Camera’s factory at Solms which isn’t very far from Wetzlar – its old and now new headquarters – about 80 kilometres north of Frankfurt. Back in those days Leica Akadamie was more about product knowledge than an
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Reef Reporting
What do you get when you combine photography, videography and marine biology? If you’re Dr Dean Miller and the Great Barrier Reef Legacy (GBRL) team, you get research expeditions designed to investigate and, ultimately, save coral reefs. You also get
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X Fujifilm -t30 good To Go
If you want to take the middle ground in the debate about sensor size, there’s no better to place to land than Fujifilm’s use of the ‘APS-C’ format with its X mount mirrorless system. The best current interpretation of the brief is undoubtedly the X-
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2019 Fujifilm Showcase Fifth Round Winners
Quick reactions resulted in this spectacular image taken at the Avalon Airshow in Victoria. Photographer Steven Genesin had no idea that the staged explosion was going to happen as the stunt plane took off, but had his camera on high-speed continuous
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LisTed
THIS CHECKLIST is designed to allow direct comparisons between different camera models, here listed in price order within each brand. The published prices are mostly supplied by the distributors as recommended retail prices (RRPs). However, some dist

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