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Film and digital insights and equipment for photography enthusiasts

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Camera Australia
Editor: Paul Burrowspaul.burrows@futurenet.com Art Director: Kristian Hagenkristian.hagen@futurenet.com Sub-editor: Sharmishta Sarkarsharmishta.sarkar@futurenet.com Bruce Usher, Trevern Dawes, Stephen Dawson, Alison Stieven-Taylor. Advertising Direct
Camera3 min readPopular Culture & Media Studies
Phone Home
THE BIGGEST DEBATE LEADING UP TO this year’s TIPA World Awards – you can read all about the winners in this issue – was the proposal to expand the number of smartphone categories from one to three. Given all the TIPA members are photography magazines
Camera2 min read
Cropped Up
CANON’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF an APS-C mirrorless camera system using the RF mount has a number of wider implications. This is usually the case when Canon makes any major move, such has been its dominance of the market for many decades. At the press briefi
Camera9 min read
What’s New
SONY’S RELENTLESS PROGRAM of expanding its FE-mount line continues with the new FE 24-70mm f/2.8 G Master II, with which the system ticks over to 67 models. The Mark II version of the GM series 24-70mm f/2.8 is a similar upgrade to the 70-200mm f/2.8
Camera1 min read
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
Due to any issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s advisable to check directly with exhibition and event organisers regarding possible cancellations, postponements or changes to normal opening hours. Many galleries, exhibition spaces and museum
Camera23 min read
Tipa World Awards 2022
Considering the slowdown that’s hit the camera industry due to various issues related to the Covid-19 pandemic – the current component shortages and supply chain difficulties both being significant knock-on effects – there were still a lot of product
Camera2 min read
Golden Hour
Photographed at Little Cove, Noosa Heads on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast in the early evening. After a long career as a corporate and advertising photographer, Bruce Usher now works as a freelancer, primarily concentrating on editorial assignments for
Camera10 min read
Travel Time
HOW TO COME HOME WITH MEMORABLE PHOTOS Travel photography can encompass everything from landscapes to portraits, close-ups to aerials, and architecture to night scenes. In some cases the subject will make the picture for you, but there are plenty of
Camera1 min read
Your Good Health
Many of the restrictions that previously halted international travel have been lifted, but there are still some additional requirements for anybody leaving and returning to Australia. Visit www.smarttraveller.gov.au for the latest information. Many c
Camera6 min read
Sports Photography Ace Hamish Blair Gets Hands-on With The Canon EOS R3
A Canon Australia and Australian Camera magazine promotion. Over the last few decades, Hamish Blair has travelled the world in pursuit of the biggest stories in live sport. Whether shooting the Olympic Games, Ashes cricket, Champions League soccer or
Camera1 min read
Hamish Blair’s Top Tips For Sports Photography
01 Be patient and concentrate – the key moments can all happen in a split second and then be gone! 02 Try to anticipate the action – you can never know for certain what will happen next, but you can often make a good prediction and make sure you’re r
Camera2 min read
Pink Lady® Food Photographer Of The Year 2022
Indian photographer Debdatta Chakraborty won the overall prize of Pink Lady Food Photographer Of The Year for 2022 with an intimate image full of warmth and humanity, titled Kebabiyana. The photograph was taken on Khayyam Chowk, an ordinary Indian st
Camera5 min read
Star Attraction
If you’re the owner of a full-frame Sony Alpha mirrorless camera then you’d have to be happy when it comes to adding to your lens system. Not only is Sony’s own line-up creeping towards 70 models, but there isn’t a third-party lens maker of any note
Camera1 min read
SAMYANG AF 24mm f/1.8 FE $869
Estimated average street price Format: Full frame or APS-C digital sensors. (Effective focal length on APS-C is 36mm). Angle-of-View: 83.7degrees (diagonal). Construction: 11 elements/8 groups. Seven special elements – two ‘ASP’ aspherical types, two
Camera5 min read
2022 Sony World Photography Awards Overall And Professional Category Winners
Australian photojournalist Adam Ferguson won the Photographer Of The Year title in the 2022 Sony World Photography Awards, collecting a US$25,000 (around A$33,000) and a range of Sony digital imaging equipment as his prizes. Adam’s winning portfolio
Camera6 min read
Reward For (not) A Lot Of Effort
The first OM System camera body may be a bit on the chubby side compared to its petite Olympus OM-D series cousins, but it’s the lenses that will seal the deal here, especially the telephotos. The new OM System 40-150mm telezoom is perhaps the best i
Camera1 min read
Om System M.zuiko Digital Ed 40-150mm F/4.0 Pro $1,499
Format: Micro Four Thirds. Effective Focal Length: 80-300mm. Angle-of-View: 30 to 8.2 degrees (diagonal). Construction: 15 elements/9 groups. Six special elements – one Super ED (Super Extra-Low Dispersion) type, one HR (High Refractive Index) type,
Camera10 min read
Nice Idea, But… The Short History Of The Advanced Photo System
Like it or not, the smartphone represents the culmination of what the camera industry had been trying to achieve for the best part of 150 years. It’s a compact device that’s easily carried anywhere and delivers an acceptable result in most situations
Camera2 min read
Fujifilm Showcase
Here’s a great example of capturing exactly the ‘decisive moment’… which can be very hard to do with unpredictable subjects such as insects. Steve Genesin was the photographer in the right spot at the right time to capture Monarch butterflies swarmin
Camera1 min read
LisTed
www.teds.com.au BUYER’S CHECK LIST MAY/JUNE 2022 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 rec
Camera1 min read
Camera Australia
Editor: Paul Burrowspaul.burrows@futurenet.com Art Director: Kristian Hagenkristian.hagen@futurenet.com Sub-editor: Sharmishta Sarkarsharmishta.sarkar@futurenet.com Bruce Usher, Trevern Dawes, Stephen Dawson, Alison Stieven-Taylor. Advertising Direct
Camera3 min readPopular Culture & Media Studies
Phone Home
THE BIGGEST DEBATE LEADING UP TO this year’s TIPA World Awards – you can read all about the winners in this issue – was the proposal to expand the number of smartphone categories from one to three. Given all the TIPA members are photography magazines
Camera9 min read
What’s New
SONY’S RELENTLESS PROGRAM of expanding its FE-mount line continues with the new FE 24-70mm f/2.8 G Master II, with which the system ticks over to 67 models. The Mark II version of the GM series 24-70mm f/2.8 is a similar upgrade to the 70-200mm f/2.8
Camera2 min read
Cropped Up
CANON’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF an APS-C mirrorless camera system using the RF mount has a number of wider implications. This is usually the case when Canon makes any major move, such has been its dominance of the market for many decades. At the press briefi
Camera1 min read
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
Due to any issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s advisable to check directly with exhibition and event organisers regarding possible cancellations, postponements or changes to normal opening hours. Many galleries, exhibition spaces and museum
Camera23 min read
Tipa World Awards 2022
Considering the slowdown that’s hit the camera industry due to various issues related to the Covid-19 pandemic – the current component shortages and supply chain difficulties both being significant knock-on effects – there were still a lot of product
Camera2 min read
Golden Hour
Photographed at Little Cove, Noosa Heads on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast in the early evening. After a long career as a corporate and advertising photographer, Bruce Usher now works as a freelancer, primarily concentrating on editorial assignments for
Camera10 min read
Travel Time
HOW TO COME HOME WITH MEMORABLE PHOTOS Travel photography can encompass everything from landscapes to portraits, close-ups to aerials, and architecture to night scenes. In some cases the subject will make the picture for you, but there are plenty of
Camera1 min read
Your Good Health
Many of the restrictions that previously halted international travel have been lifted, but there are still some additional requirements for anybody leaving and returning to Australia. Visit www.smarttraveller.gov.au for the latest information. Many c
Camera6 min read
Sports Photography Ace Hamish Blair Gets Hands-on With The Canon EOS R3
A Canon Australia and Australian Camera magazine promotion. Over the last few decades, Hamish Blair has travelled the world in pursuit of the biggest stories in live sport. Whether shooting the Olympic Games, Ashes cricket, Champions League soccer or
Camera1 min read
Hamish Blair’s Top Tips For Sports Photography
01 Be patient and concentrate – the key moments can all happen in a split second and then be gone! 02 Try to anticipate the action – you can never know for certain what will happen next, but you can often make a good prediction and make sure you’re r
Camera2 min read
Pink Lady® Food Photographer Of The Year 2022
Indian photographer Debdatta Chakraborty won the overall prize of Pink Lady Food Photographer Of The Year for 2022 with an intimate image full of warmth and humanity, titled Kebabiyana. The photograph was taken on Khayyam Chowk, an ordinary Indian st
Camera5 min read
Star Attraction
If you’re the owner of a full-frame Sony Alpha mirrorless camera then you’d have to be happy when it comes to adding to your lens system. Not only is Sony’s own line-up creeping towards 70 models, but there isn’t a third-party lens maker of any note
Camera1 min read
SAMYANG AF 24mm f/1.8 FE $869
Estimated average street price Format: Full frame or APS-C digital sensors. (Effective focal length on APS-C is 36mm). Angle-of-View: 83.7degrees (diagonal). Construction: 11 elements/8 groups. Seven special elements – two ‘ASP’ aspherical types, two
Camera5 min read
2022 Sony World Photography Awards Overall And Professional Category Winners
Australian photojournalist Adam Ferguson won the Photographer Of The Year title in the 2022 Sony World Photography Awards, collecting a US$25,000 (around A$33,000) and a range of Sony digital imaging equipment as his prizes. Adam’s winning portfolio
Camera6 min read
Reward For (not) A Lot Of Effort
The first OM System camera body may be a bit on the chubby side compared to its petite Olympus OM-D series cousins, but it’s the lenses that will seal the deal here, especially the telephotos. The new OM System 40-150mm telezoom is perhaps the best i
Camera1 min read
Om System M.zuiko Digital Ed 40-150mm F/4.0 Pro $1,499
Format: Micro Four Thirds. Effective Focal Length: 80-300mm. Angle-of-View: 30 to 8.2 degrees (diagonal). Construction: 15 elements/9 groups. Six special elements – one Super ED (Super Extra-Low Dispersion) type, one HR (High Refractive Index) type,
Camera10 min read
Nice Idea, But… The Short History Of The Advanced Photo System
Like it or not, the smartphone represents the culmination of what the camera industry had been trying to achieve for the best part of 150 years. It’s a compact device that’s easily carried anywhere and delivers an acceptable result in most situations
Camera2 min read
Fujifilm Showcase
Here’s a great example of capturing exactly the ‘decisive moment’… which can be very hard to do with unpredictable subjects such as insects. Steve Genesin was the photographer in the right spot at the right time to capture Monarch butterflies swarmin
Camera1 min read
LisTed
www.teds.com.au BUYER’S CHECK LIST MAY/JUNE 2022 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 rec

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