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Film and digital insights and equipment for photography enthusiasts

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Editor: Paul Burrows paul.burrows@futurenet.com Art Director: Kristian Hagen kristian.hagen@futurenet.com Bruce Usher, Trevern Dawes, Stephen Dawson, Alison Stieven-Taylor, Sharmishta Sarkar. Advertising Director: Jim Preece jim.preece@futurenet.com
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Past And Present
One of the cameras on test in this issue is Fujifilm’s X-Pro3 and it certainly qualifies as one of the most unusual models on the market at the moment. There certainly isn’t a more interesting balance of traditional camera design elements with contem
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Canon Teases With More Tasty EOS R5 Specs
IN A THIRD pre-launch press release Canon has released more details about its planned pro-level EOS R5 mirrorless camera. Canon is building anticipation for the camera it's now dubbing “The King”. The company says the R5 will “redefine the mirrorless
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A Lens-led Recovery
You won’t be surprised to learn that the camera industry has taken a big hit economically as a result of the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. It may not be suffering as badly as, say, travel and tourism, but sales are down significantly, resulting
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Get Airborne With The New Dji Mavic Air 2
IT’S POSSIBLY THE only way you’ll be flying over the next few months. Drone-maker DJI has upgraded its popular Mavic Air consumer-level camera drone. DJI says the new Mavic Air 2 is “the smartest, safest and easiest-to-fly consumer drone to date”. Th
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Canon Unveils 3rd Gen C300 And 25-250mm Cine Zoom
WHILE CANON CONTINUES to offer ever more capable hybrid photo/video cameras, its Cinema EOS range is specifically targeted towards pro-level cinematographers. The latest addition to the Cinema EOS camera body line-up is the C300 Mark III and it’s acc
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Panasonic Launches Lightest L Mount Lens
USERS OF L mount full-frame mirrorless cameras have a new compact and lightweight standard zoom to consider, courtesy of Panasonic. The Lumix S 20-60mm f/3.5-5.6 zoom weighs in at just 360g and is only 87mm in length. On the outside it features a wea
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Samyang Updates Popular MF Primes
SOUTH KOREAN LENS maker Samyang has updated two of its most popular manual-focus prime lenses. Both the MF 14mm f/2.8 ultra-wide and the MF 85mm f/1.4 short telephoto are now available in Mark 2 versions. While optical constructions remain the same,
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’blad X1d II Upgrade Adds Video And More
HASSELBLAD HAS ANNOUNCED the much-anticipated firmware upgrade which finally adds video recording capabilities to the X1D II 50C medium format mirrorless camera. The new firmware is also available for the 907X Special Edition body with the CFV II 50C
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Epson Goes Big On The Desktop
IT’S BEEN PRETTY quiet on the photo printer front of late, but Epson has kicked things off with a pair of new SureColor series pro-level models. Both are desktop options, with the Su-reColor P706 being an A3+ format (i.e. 13-inch wide media) and the
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PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
Due to the social distancing requirements demanded by the COVID-19 pandemic, large public gatherings are still restricted around Australia, so venues such as galleries, exhibition spaces and museums are either closed or are allowing limited admission
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Covid-19 And All That
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the cancellation of numerous exhibitions, conventions and photography-related events around the world and here in Australia. At the top of the list is Photokina 2020 – already rescheduled from 2019 – which had been se
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2020 Nikon Surf Photo And Video Of The Year Awards
Ren McGann is the winner of the 2020 Nikon Surf Photo Of The Year Award with his image The Right, while Andrew Kaineder was awarded the Nikon Surf Video Of The Year Award for his piece Flow State. Ren says, “Its a great honour to have won amongst suc
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Stu Gibson’s Top Tips For Great Surf Photos
Before you jump into surf photography, spend as much time as you can getting familiar with the ocean. Swimming, surfing, shooting, or even just being at the beach from a young age will give you the most valuable skills to be a surf photographer. You
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The Perfect Match
By any measure, Melbourne-based photographer Nick Ghionis is a creative and commercial success – there’s a long list of local and international awards to confirm it, not to mention a great many very happy clients. There isn’t the space to list his ma
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The World’s Best Sunset Spots
A sunset is a sunset is a sunset,” was often the derogatory critique of a sunset photograph whenever one turned up in competition judging. In other words, a sunset is a bit of a cliché, but let’s be honest here: who doesn’t love a good one if you hap
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Ten Top Tips For Shooting Sunsets
Faced with a brilliant sunset it can be tempting to start blazing away indiscriminately, but it does pay to stop for a moment and think about how to produce a better photograph. Composition is the key here, so think about framing, balance and element
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Low Light, High Speed
A few laps into the start of the 2020 Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour race for GT3 and GT4 class sports cars at the famous Mount Panorama circuit, Bathurst, in central-west NSW. This is the only major motor race in the world which starts in the dark, com
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Six Packed
There probably isn’t a better comparison of the relative merits of the DSLR and mirrorless camera configurations than Canon’s EOS 90D and EOS M6 Mark II. The pair was launched together and share the same digital ‘powerplant’ in terms of sensor and pr
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Making Movies
Compared to its DSLR cousin, the EOS M6 Mark II makes much more sense as a video camera. It’s mirrorless for starters, but also much more compact and lighter. Canon is targeting vloggers with the 180-degree tilt-up screen, but the camera can do a lot
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Canon EOS M6 Mark II $1,699
Type: Enthusiast-level digital mirrorless camera with Canon EF-M bayonet lens mount Focusing: Automatic via Dual Pixel CMOS AF with phase-difference detection measurments using 5,481 points. Focus points may be selected manually or automatically. One
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Multiple Choice
Remember when we reviewed Nikon’s Z 6 and noted that it was a lot like a mirrorless version of the D750 DSLR? Well, it’s a funny old world and now there’s the Nikon D780 – essentially the D750’s replacement – that could be said to be the DSLR equival
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Making Movies
The one area which most graphically illustrates how much things have changed since late 2014 – when the D750 was announced – and today has to be video recording. Of course, much of this is based on the improvements to the life view capabilities – the
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Nikon D780 $3,899
Type: Enthusiast/semi-professional digital SLR with Nikon F (D-type) bayonet lens mount Focusing: Automatic via 51-point wide-area system using phase-detection type CCD sensor with 15 cross-type arrays. Focus points may be selected manually or automa
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Widening The Gap
Samyang’s design philosophy for its lenses is simple – put everything into the optical elements and key physical components, and don’t worry too much about the frills. This has resulted in a line of highperformance prime lenses with manual focusing t
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SAMYANG MF 14mm f/2.8 MARK 2
Format: Full-frame format digital sensors. The focal length is equivalent to 21mm on an APS-C format sensor (with a 1.5x focal length magnification factor). Equivalent to 28mm on a Micro Four Thirds format sensor. Angle-of-View: 115.7 degrees (diagon
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Bread And Butter… With Jam And Cream
With Canon’s fullframe mirrorless camera system still relatively new, there’s a likelihood that only a few of you are actually in the market for the new RF mount 70-200mm f/2.8 L series zoom, but this lens is significant for other reasons. It’s a gre
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CANON RF 70-200mm F/2.8L IS USM $4,899
Format: Full-frame digital sensors. Angle-of-View: 34-12 degrees (diagonal on 35mm). Construction: 17 elements/13 groups. Minimum Focus: 70cm. Maximum Reproduction Ratio: 1:4.3 Aperture Range: f/2.8 to f/32. Overall Length: 146mm. Maximum Diameter: 8
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Finder’s Reward
While Leica’s M rangefinder cameras are fundamentally analog with a digital makeover, the Fujifilm X-Pro models are fundamentally digital with an analog makeover. Of course, the Leica Ms are, technically speaking, mirrorless, but the X-Pro line has i
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Making Movies
Video makers will find the X-Pro3 is a camera of contradictions. Its main video capabilities have been significantly upgraded over the X-Pro2 – even enabling 4K DCI at a bit rate of 200 Mbps and F-Log recording – but it’s been hobbled in other import
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Fujifilm X-pro3 $2,699
Type: Professional digital mirrorless camera with Fujifilm X bayonet lens mount. Focusing: TTL automatic hybrid system using phase-difference detection and contrastdetection measurements. 425 measuring points (in 25x17 or 13x9 patterns). Singlepoint,
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Screen Saver
Buying a monitor dedicated to photography used to be an expensive exercise for nonprofessional photographers. There were only a couple of brands to choose from and they catered to high-end users with equally highend budgets. Now the market has become
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Mad To The Max Minolta Xm Motor
After Nikon set the formula for a professional-grade 35mm (full-frame) SLR in 1959 with the legendary F, and Canon followed it up in early 1971 with the original F-1, it was game-on for other would-be rivals. Most of the major brands had a shot at on
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Benq Sw270c Photovue $1,499
Panel Type: 68.58cm (27.0 inches) IPS with white LED backlighting. Display Area: 596.7x335.6 mm (full scan). 16:9 aspect ratio. Native Resolution: 2560x1440 pixels (109ppi). Viewing Angles: 178 degrees horizontal and vertical. Brightness: 300 cd/m2 (
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ListTed
www.teds.com.au THIS CHECKLIST is designed to allow direct comparisons between different camera models, listed here in price order within each brand. The published prices are mostly supplied by the distributors as recommended retail prices (RRPs). Ho
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2020 Fujifilm Showcase Fifth Round Winners
Great use of colour, contrast, cropping and composition combine to create a compelling photograph that makes you want to keep on revisiting. The location is Longyearbyen on the Norwegian island of Svalbard and the photographer is Jason Freeman. He us

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