July - August 2023

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Film and digital insights and equipment for photography enthusiasts

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Editorial Editor: Paul Burrows paul.burrows@futurenet.com Art Director: Kristian Hagen kristian.hagen@futurenet.com Contributors Bruce Usher, Trevern Dawes, Stephen Dawson, Alison Stieven-Taylor. Photography All copyrights and trademarks are recognis
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Taking Command
I must confess to feeling a distinct twinge in the wallet area when I saw the Nikon Z f. It looks sensational – especially with the coloured inserts – and certainly does a pretty convincing job of creating a digitalera representation of the FM2. Unde
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Power And Glory From Amaran Rgbww Led Lights
THE RECENTLY-ANNOUNCED AMARAN 300C and 150C are full colour point-source LED monolights designed for photographers, video-makers and content creators. They have a bi-colour CCT range of 2500 to 7500K CCT, with green-to-magenta adjustment, 360-degree
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Fujifilm Revs Up Gfx System With New Camera And Lenses…
A NEW SENSOR and processor give the medium format GFX100 II a feature set very similar to that of Fujifilm's latest X mount mirrorless cameras. The BSI-type CMOS sensor is still in the 44×33 mm format – which is 1.7x larger than full frame – with an
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…and Not One, But Two Fujinon Gf Tilt/ Shift Lenses
THERE ARE THREE new lenses for the Fujifilm GFX mirrorless medium format system and two of them are tilt/shift models. Tilt/shift lenses are immensely useful and were common in most rollfilm medium format camera systems. The shift adjustment corrects
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…fast 55mm For Fujifilm G Mount Cameras…
LIKELY TO BECOME a popular choice for owners of Fujifilm's GFX series mirrorless medium format cameras, the new Fujinon GF 55mm f/1.7 R WR is a handy standard prime, equivalent to 44mm (in the 35mm format). Despite the fast maximum aperture, the new
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Canon Celebrates 50 Years Of Operation In Australia
CANON'S FIRST DIRECT presence in Australia was established in July 1973 as a joint venture called Repco Canon Pty Ltd which was created to import, sell, and prepare to manufacture Canon photocopiers in the region. In 1976, the company name was change
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Sony Gives The Compact Series Alpha More Of Everything
SONY LEADS THE way when it comes to packaging a full frame mirrorless camera in a small and lightweight body, and now there are two Compact series Alpha models. The A7C II is a direct replacement for the original A7C, but steps up to the same 33 mega
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Sony Continues Fe Mount Lens Upgrades
HAVING BUILT A system of over 70 FE mount lenses in under a decade, Sony is now busy upgrading many of its key models with recent updates including the FE 70-200mm f/4.0 Macro G OSS II and the FE 16-35mm f/2.8 GM II which was announced along with the
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Nikon Creates Retro Styled Full Frame Mirrorless Camera
AS HAS BEEN expected for a while, Nikon has applied some FM2 styling inspiration to a full frame mirrorless camera and come up with the Z f. It's a truly handsome-looking thing with a black finish, dials galore and the choice of different inserts in
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Brief Exposures
Established by Leica, Panasonic and Sigma in 2018, the L Mount Alliance has a new member with South Korean lens maker Samyang joining the group. It's good news for owners of L mount camera as Samyang has already proven itself with competitive FE moun
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Panasonic Updates Popular M43 Mount Zooms
TWO OF THE popular zooms for Panasonic's Micro Four Thirds camera have been upgraded with revised optical designs and new features. The new Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 35-100mm f/2.8 Power O.I.S is actually the third version of this lens that is equivalen
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PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
Current to 22 October: Exhibition. Time For A Moment, photographs by Wendy McDougall. Hand-printed darkroom prints of photographs on the theme of the humorous and the absurd – taken over her 40-year career as a professional photographer – which she r
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Lumix G9 II Has Pdaf, 75 Fps And Prores Video
WHILE THE LUMIX G9 II is a very different camera from the original G9 which was launched back in late 2017, it's worth noting that the latter has remained a consistently strong seller over this time thanks to no fewer than 11 firmware upgrades. So a
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Magic Mushrooms
Winner of the Plants And Fungi Category in the 2022 Wildlife Photographer Of The Year competition. These morels – a type of mostly edible wild mushrooms – were photographed on Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece. The distinctive appearance
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2024 Camera Magazine Imaging Awards
As we've noted over the last couple of years when presenting our annual awards, the camera industry took a real beating during the Covid-19 pandemic and the various knock-on effects. It was already dealing with some big challenges even before the wor
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About The Camera Magazine Imaging Awards
The first awards were run in 1981 when the magazine was called Camera Craft, and there was just one category – The Australian Camera Of The Year (won by the Olympus OM-10 35mm SLR). Subsequently, the number of categories has grown to reflect developm
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Scott Portelli And Om System Going Wild
Check out Scott Portelli's stunning photography and you'll quickly note that he doesn't take things easy. If he's not under the waves, he's among the clouds or facing up to some of the most challenging environments on the planet. Scott estimates that
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Camera House Turns 40!
Established in 1983 and now with 53 stores around Australia, Camera House has been dedicated to providing photographers – and now also video-makers – with reliable service and competitive prices. It has been an ongoing policy of the group to have sal
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Twenty-twenty Vision
When Fujifilm launched the X-S10 back in late 2020, it caused quite a stir. For starters, it took a very different styling path to the retro-looking X-T series and went a lot more mainstream in its control layout and operation. Perhaps more perplexin
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MAKiNG MOViES
isn't going to pull sales from the X-H2S or the X-T5 as it doesn't do quite enough to compete overall, but if you're primarily going to be shooting video, it presents some very compelling arguments. For starters, it's more compact and lighter, but of
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Fujifilm X-s20 $2349
Body only. Recommended retail. Type: Enthusiast-level 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 2
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Sony Alpha Awards 2023
Sony Australia has revealed the winners of the eighth annual Sony Alpha Awards which specifically recognise the work of Australian and New Zealand photographers, both amateurs and professionals, and images captured on Sony Alpha cameras and lenses. T
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Go Big
Thanks to the design freedoms afforded by the mirrorless camera configuration, we are becoming accustomed to seeing more exotic lenses, especially zooms. The shorter flange back distance and, in many cases, wider throat of the mirrorless camera mount
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Vital Statistics
Format: Full frame. Angle-of-View: 61.8-16.4 degrees (diagonal on full frame). Construction: 21 elements/18 groups. Includes one ‘H-ASP’ hybrid aspherical element, two ‘ASP’ aspherical elements, six extra-low dispersion (ED) glass elements, and three
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Making Movies
in capabilities when it comes to shooting video. The Firmware 2.0 upgrade for the former added all the additional recording options that come as standard with the Z 8. These start with internal recording of 12-bit RAW video in the proprietary N-RAW f
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Nikon Z 8 $6999
body only, recommended retail price Type: Professional or enthusiast-level digital mirrorless camera with Nikon Z bayonet lens mount Focusing: Automatic via 493-points wide-area system (90 percent vertical/horixontal frame coverage) using hybrid phas
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At The Front Of The Q
Do you wonder whether camera designers are surprised when a new model turns out to be a big hit? After all, for it to get to market (many don't), plenty of people along the way must have thought it was a good idea. But how good? For Leica, its herita
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Making Movies
It's hard to see anybody buying the Q3 specifically to shoot video, even if 28mm has been dubbed ‘the cinematic focal length’. Interchangeable lenses are still more desirable, and the crops are a bit harder to work with when shooting video (although
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Vital Statistics
Recommended retail price Type: Fixed prime lens digital compact camera with electronic viewfinder. Lens: Leica Summilux 28mm f/1.7 ASPH. Eleven elements in nine groups (three aspherical types). Aperture range is f/1.7 to f/16, adjustable in 1/3-stop
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2023 Sigma Showcase Fifths Round Winners
Excellent use of a leading line as a compositional tool along with a long exposure to blur the in-coming tide has created this compelling study by Trace O'Rourke. It really does grab your attention and then hold it which is the mark of a great photog
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Sigma Showcase 2023 – Last Chance To Enter!
Sigma lenses is the new sponsor for our Showcase competition, made possible through the generosity of the Australian distributor C.R. Kennedy & Company Pty Ltd. The grand prize for the 2023 Sigma Showcase is a Sigma lens to the value of $1000 and the
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Digital Slr Cameras Buyer's Check List
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). However, some dist
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Pentax Spotmatic
Of all the likely millions of pictures taken of The Beatles, the most significant for the camera industry depicted the Fab Four clutching Pentax Spotmatics. In fact, there are many photos from the early 1960s showing Paul, John, George and Ringo with

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