Pro Photo

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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. All copyrights
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Photography Is… What Exactly?
One of my Covid-era stay-at-home-activities has been editing the forthcoming magnum opus, A Few Of The Legends, by photographer Peter Adams. It’s a 600+ page book that’s been 36-odd years in the making and includes many of the most famous names in 20
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Fujifilm Adds Pro/Am Model To X Mount Line
Fujifilm has added an interesting new model to its X mount line-up of APS-C mirrorless cameras. The X-S10 essentially represents a new category of bodies designed to appeal to users who still want a higher-end feature set, but prefer a more compact c
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B&W On Cue From Leica
Leica’s Q series of fixed-lens full-frame cameras has been a bigger success than the company originally envisaged, with the Q2 currently one of its biggest sellers. Consequently, a Monochrom version makes a lot of sense, creating what has to be the u
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Brief Exposures
Panasonic has introduced a series of \ firmware updates for the Lumix DC-S1H (Version 2.2), S1R (Version 1.6), S1 (Version 1.6) and S5 (Version 2.0), plus the DC-G100 (Version 1.1) mirrorless cameras. For the Lumix S series cameras the upgrades inclu
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Something In The Box From Panasonic
Panasonic has launched its first boxform video camera, the Lumix BGH1, which uses the Micro Four Thirds lens mount. The compact cube shape is very versatile in video-making and cinematography, enabling the camera to be more easily configured in a cag
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Sigma Launches New Line Of Compact Mirrorless Lenses
Making the most of what can be achieved in designing lenses for mirrorless cameras, Sigma has introduced a new line of compact premium primes in the Sony FE mount and the L mount (which it shares with Leica and Panasonic). Designated the I series, th
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Prime Time With Panasonic
Last year, Panasonic revealed it was planning a line-up of four fast prime lenses in the full frame L mount, all identical in size and all with a maximum aperture of f/1.8. The first of these – the Lumix S 85mm f/1.8 is now available – and the three
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Nikon Turns Up The Amp With Next-Gen Z Bodies
Nikon may have been late to the fullframe mirrorless camera party, but it got into the swing pretty quickly with its first models, the Z 6 and Z 7, gaining strong followings. The second-generation Z 6II and Z 7II are likely to continue the trend as t
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Make A Date
Due to the social distancing requirements demanded by the COVID-19 pandemic, galleries, exhibition spaces and museums are only allowing limited admission or are open for shorter times. Some are closed due to local lockdowns. However, many are still s
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The Australian Centre For Photography Closes
Established in 1973 by photographers David Moore and Wes Stacey to promote photography and photographic education, the Australian Centre For Photography (ACP) has closed due to a severe decline in revenue caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the ineli
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Fujifilm Updates X Mount Ultra-Wide Zoom
The X mount 10-24mm f/4.0 wide-angle zoom (equivalent to 15-36mm) has proved popular with users of Fujifilm’s APS-C format mirrorless cameras, but being a comparatively early model, it was ready for an update. The new version – now called the Fujinon
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Leica Adds More Video Goodies To New SL Body
Essentially a replacement for the original 24MP Leica SL, the new SL2-S shares the same more compact body as the existing SL2, but has an all-new 24MP sensor and significantly enhanced video capabilities. The SL2-S joins a growing line-up of L mount
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Canon Adds Crowd-Pleasers To RF Lens Line
Canon has really got the bit between its teeth with its RF full-frame mirrorless lens system and, with the arrival of two more models, it now numbers 19. The current emphasis is on adding mirrorless versions of the lenses that have been popular in th
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The End Of A 70-Year Era For Photokina
First staged in 1950 – when Germany was at the centre of the camera industry – the Photokina trade exhibition has been officially put on hold “until further notice” and, consequently, is unlikely to be held again, at least not at its traditional loca
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Olympus’ Monster Telezoom Is Here!
It’s a lens that couldn’t be done – at least in practical terms – with a sensor any bigger than Micro Four Thirds, but Olympus had gone all-out to make the most of the 1.97x magnification factor. The much-awaited M.Zuiko Digital ED 150-400mm f/4.5 TC
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ProPhoto 40 Years Ago
There’s nothing like a dip into the archives to reveal just how much things have changed in the professional photography industry, especially over the last couple of decades. In the early 1970s medium and large format cameras were considered the only
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The International Landscape Photographer Of The Year 2020
Over 3,800 entries from around the world were submitted to the seventh International Landscape Photographer Of The Year awards, which were open to both amateur and professional photographers. There are two major prizes – the International Landscape P
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Taking It On The Street
We’re all familiar with the term ‘street photography’, but what is it exactly? ProPhoto sat down with award-winning Australian photojournalist and documentary photographer Jack Picone – who has gained a global reputation for his reporting of world ev
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Six Packed NIKON D6
Without wishing to start out on too pessimistic a note, Nikon’s venerable line of professional 35mm SLRs ended with the F6… is it going to be the same with the D6? It’s a question that applies equally to Canon’s EOS-1D X Mark III, of course, because
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Making Movies
Nikon has fine-tuned the D6’s video capabilities compared to the D5 rather than making any significant upgrades. So there’s now the choice of the MOV or MP4 formats (with MPEG-4/H.264 AVC encoding) for better matching the output to the application, t
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Specs Nikon D6 $9,999
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 lens speed). Focus points may be selected manuall
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A Few Of My Favourite Things
What do professional photographers get up to when they’re not behind the camera? We take a look at the personal side of a photographer’s life as expressed through some of the things they value the most. In this issue, photographer-turned-carpenter Pe
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Circle Of Life
Regular readers of ProPhoto will be familiar with Bruce Usher’s contributions to this magazine, whether they be his precisely-balanced portraits for the A Few Of My Favourite Things features – as much about the art of communication as photography – o

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