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Australian Camera Handbook
Editor: Paul Burrows paul.burrows@futurenet.com Art Director: Kristian Hagen kristian.hagen@futurenet.com All copyrights and trademarks are recognised and respected. Advertising Director: Jim Preece jim.preece@futurenet.com Advertising Manager: Lewis
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From The Editor
Welcome to our annual compilation of imaging product tests from Australian Camera magazine, which includes cameras, lenses, printers and photo monitors. We’ve selected these particular products for a variety reasons… innovation, new technologies, val
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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 high-performance prime lenses with manual focusing
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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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Taking Action
Wow, you’re thinking, that X-T3 didn’t hang around for very long, did it? Look, here’s the X-T4 already. Rest assured the X-T3 remains very much alive and well in Fujifilm’s X mount line-up and, no, we’re not returning to the bad old days early in th
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Making Movies
With first the X-H1 and then the X-T3, Fujifilm made its X mount mirrorless camera system much more appealing to video-makers and this was backed up by the introduction of Fujinon cinema lenses. The X-T4 carries on the good work as it inherits the X-
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Reward For Effort
With every development of Leica’s digital M series rangefinder cameras, the traditional and the contemporary seem to co-exist more harmoniously with each other. We say “co-exist” because the two elements aren’t really integrated like they are in the
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Leica M10-r $13,500
body only, recommended retail. Type: Coupled rangefinder digital camera with interchangeable lenses using Leica M-bayonet mount (with contacts for 6-bit coding for lens ID). Focusing: Manual via double-image rangefinder in viewfinder. RF base length
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Fujifilm X-t4 $2,999
body only, recommended retail Type: Professional 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 (in 25x17
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The X Factor
While Olympus’ OM-D flagship, the E-M1X, is primarily targeted at sports photographers, and anybody else who needs lots of speed and a killer autofocus system, it also has many features with much wider appeal. Additionally, for a Micro Four Thirds fo
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Making Movies
Micro Four Thirds mirrorless cameras have been popular with video makers because they’re compact, lighter weight and very portable, making them particularly suited for fast, handheld shooting. Additionally, the sensor size has inherently greater dept
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Should I Buy An Olympus Camera Right Now?
While we were compiling this review, Olympus Corporation in Japan announced its intention to sell off its imaging business to a new company which will be formed by private equity company, Japan Industrial Partners. In essence, Olympus says it can’t w
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Olympus Om-d E-m1 Mark III
$ 3,099 body only, recommended retail. Type: Professional interchangeable lens digital mirrorless camera with Micro Four Thirds System bayonet lens mount. Focusing: Automatic hybrid system using contrast-detection and phase-difference detection measu
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Movie Mogul
Video is, of course, the S1H’s big party trick, but there are good reasons why we now have so-called hybrid cameras, especially in the mirrorless category. These days professional photographers – especially in the areas of sports and news gathering –
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Making Movies
The S1H’s extensive video capabilities warrant an entire article to themselves so we’re only going to be touching on the highlights here… and there are plenty of those alone. A key headline is the uncropped 6K recording – which represents a frame res
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Panasonic Lumix Dc-s1h
$5999 body only Type: Professional-level hybrid digital still/video mirrorless camera with L bayonet lens mount. Focusing: Automatic 225-point wide-area system using contrast-detection via imaging sensor using ‘Depth From Defocus’ (DFD) processing at
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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
$3,699 body only, estimated average street price 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
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Match Maker
BenQ built its reputation on affordable high-performance monitors for video and gaming, but it turned its hand to photo monitors a few years ago and is now gaining a strong following in this sector. A few product design awards have helped, including
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Benq Sw321c Photovue
$3,199 Estimated average street price Panel Type: 81.3cm (32.0 inches) IPS with white LED backlighting. Display Area: 708.48mm x 398.52mm (full scan). 16:9 aspect ratio. Native Resolution: 3840x2160 pixels (137ppi). Viewing Angles: 178 degrees horizo
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Numbers Game
Let’s kick off with a little lesson about sensor resolution and pixel size. It’s pretty simple really; at any given sensor size, if you keep adding pixels they’re going to be smaller, right? When a photodiode converts photons into electrons, it creat
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Making Movies
Being a Sony, the A7R IV joins the list of capable hybrid still/video mirrorless cameras. It has a very similar set of video features to the A7R III, starting with 4K UHD (3840x2160 pixels) recording – using the full sensor width – at 25 fps or 24 fp
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Sony A7r IV
(ILCE-7RM4) $5299 body only, recommended retail Type: Professional interchangeable lens mirrorless digital camera with Sony E bayonet lens mount (FE mount). Focusing: Automatic via hybrid contrast-detection and phase-difference detection systems. 567
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Sony A7R IV By The Numbers
62.5 millionTOTAL PIXELS 61.2 millionEFFECTIVE PIXELS 240.8 millionMAX PIXELS RESOLUTION WITH ‘PIXEL SHIFT MULTI SHOOTING’ 567PHASE-DETECTION AF PIXELS 425CONTRAST-DETECTION AF POINTS 1200EXPOSURE METERING PIXELS 500,000FP SHUTTER CYCLES 10FRAMES PER
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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
$2,599 body only, standard black finish Type: Professional 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
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Work In Progress
So far, all the L mount mirrorless cameras have been on the beefy side – Leica’s SL and SL2, and the Lumix S trio from Panasonic. All are as big – if not bigger – than the more compact full-35mm format D-SLRs such as Nikon’s D750 or the Canon EOS 6D
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Making Movies
It’s fair to say that Sigma is targeting the fp at video-makers ahead of photographers, even if it is actually an excellent stills camera. The form factor has clearly been designed with rig-based applications in mind as has the passive cooling via a
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SIGMA Fp
$2999 body only Type: Enthusiast- and pro-level mirrorless digital camera with Leica L bayonet lens mount. Focusing: Automatic 49-point wide-area system using contrast-detection via imaging sensor. Auto or manual point selection with adjustable frame
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Top Five
Just as it did with the very first – and very momentous – EOS interchangeable lens camera launch back in 1986, Canon has unveiled two new EOS models simultaneously. But this is 2020 and we’re talking about the next stage in the development of Canon’s
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Making Movies
It’s no doubt deliberate that Canon has gone for maximum bragging rights with the EOS R5’s video capabilities given that Sony, in particular, is making so much headway in the full-frame mirrorless camera category. But Panasonic is here as well, both
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Canon EOS R5
$7,099 body only. Estimated average street price. Type: Professional digital mirrorless camera with Canon RF bayonet lens mount. Focusing: Automatic via 5940-points wide-area system using phase-difference detection measurements via Dual Pixel CMOS AF

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