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Camera Australia
Editor: Paul Burrows paul.burrows@futurenet.com Art Director: Kristian Hagen kristian.hagen@futurenet.com Sub-editor: Sharmishta Sarkar sharmishta.sarkar@futurenet.com Bruce Usher, Trevern Dawes, Stephen Dawson, Alison Stieven-Taylor. Advertising Dir
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Here And Here
I don’t about you, but as I’ve got older, photography has become more and more about external stimuli – travel, events and, of course, testing camera bodies and lenses. Given my job, the latter is understandable, but overall it’s meant that my photog
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Fast Fifty And Ultra-wide Zoom Added To Nikkor Z System
RIGHT NOW, IT’S all about lenses in the full-frame mirrorless camera systems, and Nikon has added another two Z mount models to its ever-growing line-up, which now numbers 16. The newcomers are the Nikkor Z 50mm f/1.2 S fast prime and the Nikkor Z 14
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What Can Possibly Go Wrong?
HAVE YOU EVER wondered what’s going on behind the scenes at a camera company when it’s doing well… or, indeed, when it isn’t? In the end, it’s going to be all about the people involved, but how does it all work? The Japanese camera makers, in particu
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Big Things Expected For Sony’s Smallest Alpha Full-frame Camera Yet
IF YOU THOUGHT the standard Alpha series full-frame cameras were compact – and they are compared to any of the competition – just wait until you see the Alpha 7C (a.k.a. ILCE-A7C). It’s full frame – using the same sensor as the A7 III – with in-body
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Phase One Adds 90mm Lens To Xt System
IF YOU’RE THE proud owner of Phase One’s XT medium format field camera, then you’ll be interested in the addition of a 90mm f/5.6 Rodenstock lens to the system. The new XT Rodenstock 90mm f/5.6 HR Digaron-SW is the fifth lens in the system, joining t
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Firmware Upgrade For EOS R5 Provides Better Overheat Messaging
CANON HAS RELEASED a firmware upgrade for the EOS R5 mirrorless camera designed to help users better manage temperature build-ups when shooting video. Firmware upgrade Version 1.1.0 obviously doesn’t make any physical changes to the camera, but monit
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Panasonic Unveils More Compact And Affordable Lumix S Body
A FOURTH CAMERA body has been added to Panasonic’s Lumix S mirrorless system in the shape of the Lumix S5. At roughly the same size as the M43-format Lumix GH5 and weighing a little over 700g (with battery and memory card), the S5 is significantly sm
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Canon Launches First Rf Mount Cinema EOS Camera
THIS IS ARGUABLY just as interesting a product as the EOS R5, and it’s a further indication of Canon’s growing emphasis on its RF lens mount. The EOS C70 is the first Canon Cinema EOS camera to have the RF mount, but it’s also interesting for other r
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It’s A Tough Job, But Somebody Has To Do It
AUSTRALIAN CAMERA EDITOR Paul Burrows’ home office is now also the test lab for cameras, lenses and other imaging products. On one weekend, he photographed this mouth-watering collection of cameras that had either been tested (and about to be returne
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PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
Current to 30 May 2021: Exhibition.National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020 touring exhibition. The 48 finalists and winners from the 2020 competition. At Griffith (current to 2 August), Cowra (8 August – 27 September), Beaudesert (19 October – 11 D
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2021 Camera Magazine Imaging Awards
2020 will long be remembered for all the wrong reasons, and the economic knock-on effects will continue to be felt for many years to come, even assuming an effective vaccine for the Covid-19 virus is perfected soon. The photography industry has not b
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Eligibility
THE PERIOD OF ELIGIBILITY for the Camera Magazine Imaging Awards runs from 1 October to 30 September each year. This 12-month period was originally selected to prevent things being skewed in a Photokina year by the many new products that were traditi
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Canon Eos-1d X Mark III
UNLIKE LAST YEAR, when there was only one new DSLR launched during our period of eligibility, 2020 has delivered richer pickings, including the tantalising prospect of Canon and Nikon once again locking horns with their flagship cameras. It’s been ha
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Nikon Z 50
AS WITH THE last couple of years, this is still the most hotly contested camera category as mirrorless bodies have already consigned entry-level DSLRs to the history books. Here it really is all about the reduction in size and weight that’s possible
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Canon EOS R6
WITH THE EOS R5 shouting “Look at me, look at me”, there’s a chance the R6 might have been overlooked in all the fuss about 8K video and… er, well… 8K video. So, the EOS R6 doesn’t do 8K video (no biggie at this point in time), isn’t quite so well bu
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Fujifilm X-t4
THERE ARE SOME basic requirements for a professional level camera. These are reliability and durability combined with a high level of both features and specifications. After this, you can pretty well interpret the brief however you like, as is very e
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Sony Alpha 7s III
THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN a hybrid camera and a stills camera that’s also very good at video is becoming increasingly blurred. By definition then, we reckon that a hybrid camera has to be very, very good at video with a choice of resolutions, compression
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SIGMA 85mm f/1.4 DG DN ART
WHEN SIGMA FIRST began offering its much-acclaimed (and much-awarded) Art series lenses in the mirrorless mounts, they were adaptations of DSLR designs. The ‘DG DN’ initial pairs signify that this is a lens designed from scratch for full-frame mirror
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CANON RF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
THE WHOLE MIRRORLESS revolution is as much about lenses as it is about the camera bodies. The simple elimination of the reflex mirror box has opened up new design possibilities with both, enhancing various elements of handling, operation and performa
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SUPER EBC FUJINON XF 50mm f/1.0 R WR
FAST PRIME LENSES are very much back in fashion and no system is now really complete without at least a 24mm, 35mm, 50mm and 85mm in the range of f/1.2 to f/1.8. The classic ‘fast fifty’, in particular, has become a statement of the lens maker’s art,
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OLYMPUS M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 100-400mm f/5.0-6.3 IS
OLYMPUS IS REALLY making the most of what can be achieved in lens designs, especially telephotos, when imaging onto the Micro Four Thirds sensor. Nowhere is this better illustrated than with its recently released 100-400mm telezoom, which is effectiv
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Epson Surecolor Sc-p706
YOU KNOW THAT a technology has matured when the product model cycles start to get longer and longer. This has been the case with large format photo printers for a while and we were starting to think that perhaps there wasn’t much left that could be i
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Make Your Own Home Studio
If you have access to a reasonably sized room, windows and co-operative family or friends, you already have the basic ingredients for a simple home portrait studio. Available light and a willing sitter are really all you need to get started (plus you
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Beach Weather
Waverley Beach is located between Hawera and Wanganui on the south-west coast of New Zealand’s North Island. There’s really nothing remarkable about this whisper-quiet spot. In fact, the small settlement appeared to be deserted as if to suggest it wa
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The Complete Package
If you’re looking for a full-frame mirrorless camera in the resolution range of 20 to 25 megapixels, then you’re a bit spoiled for choice right now. The Nikon Z 5 or Z 6, Panasonic Lumix S1, Sony A7 III or A9/A9 II and now the Canon EOS R6. Of course
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Making Movies
While it might lack the R5’s 8K video options (to be frank, still a facility with limited applications right now) and the faster frames rates for 4K recording, the EOS R6 is nevertheless very capable as a video camera. It records 4K UHD at 60, 50, 30
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Vital Statistics
Type: Professional digital mirrorless camera with Canon RF bayonet lens mount. Focusing: Automatic via 6,072-points wide-area system using phase-difference detection measurements via Dual Pixel CMOS AF giving 100% vertical and horizontal coverage. 1,
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Little Beauty
Camera companies probably aren’t exactly thrilled when you suggest that the entry-level model in a line-up is actually the pick of the litter. This has arguably been the case with the last three generations of the E-M10, which have balanced affordabi
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Making Movies
Olympus has been steadily improving the video aspects of its OM-D bodies, so the E-M5 III and E-M1 III, in particular, are pretty capable and also leverage the size advantages of the Micro Four Thirds sensor size. The Mark III version of the E-M10 ha
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Vital Statistics
Type: Fully automatic, interchangeable lens digital camera with Micro Four Thirds System bayonet lens mount. Focusing: Automatic 121-point wide-area using contrast-detection measurement via the imaging sensor. Focus points may be selected manually or
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Six For A Hit
It all started in 1959 with the revolutionary Nikon F, a camera that undoubtedly had as much impact on photography as the original Leica and introduced the concept of a 35mm SLR system. It took Canon 10 years to come up with a rival, by which time Ni
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Making Movies
DSLRs are now really losing their appeal for shooting video, given the mirrorless camera configuration makes so much more sense for this application. It’s probably the main reason Nikon has just fine-tuned the D6’s video capabilities compared to the
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Vital Statistics
Type: Professional digital SLR with Nikon F (D-type) bayonet lens mount Focusing: Automatic via 105-point wide-area system using phase-detection type CCD sensor with all cross-type arrays (15 with f/8.0 lens speed). Focus points may be selected manua
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A Little Goes A Long Way
When we road-tested Panasonic’s 100-400mm zoom – for its Lumix G system – back in mid-2016, we reckoned it was the most convincing argument for the mirrorless camera in general and the Micro Four Thirds sensor size in particular that there was. It’s
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Vital Statistics
Format: Micro Four Thirds. Effective Focal Length: 200-800mm. Angle-of-View: 12 to 3.1 degrees (diagonal). Construction: 21 elements/15 groups. Four ‘ED’ elements, two ‘Super HR’ types and two ‘HR’ types. Minimum Focus: 1.3m (across full zooming rang
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The Name Behind The Camera
You know the brand name and you probably know some of the history behind it, but what about the people who made it happen? In this series we look at the personalities who, through often courageous decisions, got us to where we are in photography toda
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2020 Aipp Silver Lining Awards
An initiative to keep its members engaged through the Covid-19 restrictions proved to be a big success for the Australian Institute Of Professional Photography (AIPP). Earlier in the year, as it became clear the Institute’s regular print-based compet
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2020 Fujifilm Showcase Grand Prize Winner
Lockdowns and restricted travel doesn’t appear to have curbed the creative juices of our readers because the standard of entries to the 2020 Fujifilm Showcase were the highest we’ve seen for a long time. The year’s 12 finalists all produced very stro
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2020 Fujifilm Showcase First Round Winners
A wonderful atmosphere has been captured in this study by Jason Freeman taken at sunrise, so the warmth of the lighting and the ethereal quality of the early morning mist combine to create an almost mystical landscape. The tighter cropping also helps
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LisTed
www.teds.com.au BUYER’S CHECK LIST NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020 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 distributo

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