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Editor: Paul Burrows paul.burrows@futurenet.com Art Director: Kristian Hagen kristian.hagen@futurenet.com Bruce Usher, Trevern Dawes, Stephen Dawson, Alison Stieven-Taylor. All copyrights and trademarks are recognised and respected. Advertising Direc
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Timing Out
I’m dusting off an old soapbox of mine because the issue isn’t going to go away and I’ve been reminded on a number of occasions recently that time really is running out. Coincidentally, after we published the article about landscape photographer Mark
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Sony First With Full Frame Sensor Global Shutter…
Global shutter sensors in smaller sizes have been around for a while, but Sony is the first to develop a full frame sensor with the facility and the A9 III is the first mass-production digital mirrorless camera to be equipped with one. Sensor shutter
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Leica Adds Copyright Protection To ‘Stealthy’ M11-P
Under the skin, the M11-P is largely unchanged from the standard M11, but a key new feature is the ability embed secure metadata along with an image using the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) technology. The digital provenance information – the
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Epson’s New 17-Inch Photo Printer Sings The Blues
It’s been a while since we’ve welcomed a new photo printer and the Epson SureColor P5360 is a pro-level model which also introduces a new ten-colour pigmented ink set called UltraChrome PRO10. It comes in high-capacity 200 millilitre cartridges and i
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Make A Date Exhibitions · Events · Workshops · Seminars
Current to 21 January 2024: Exhibition. Hoda Afshar – A Curve Is A Broken Line. Through her photographs and moving image works, Iranian-born, Melbourne-based Hoda Afshar examines the politics of imagemaking. At the Art Gallery Of NSW, South Building
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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 44x33 mm format – which is 1.7x larger than full frame – with an
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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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…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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New Canon RF Zooms From Ultra-Wide To Supertele
Taking a bit of a break from launching new EOS R mount camera bodies, Canon has been busy bolstering its RF lens line-up with the addition of three interesting zooms. It’s a sign of a lens system’s maturity when the exotica starts arriving and over t
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Squarespace Partners With Magnum Photos For Collections Portfolio
Squarespace has released an updated suite of products to help small businesses – such as photographers selling services or products online – monetise faster and elevate the customer experience. As part of the latest Refresh, Squarespace has unveiled
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New G Master 300mm f/2.8 Is A First For Mirrorless
It’s another of the ‘staple’ lenses for many photographers – especially if you shoot sports or wildlife – and Sony is claiming its new FE mount 300mm f/2.8 telephoto prime is the world’s lightest. Interestingly, it’s actually also the first for a ful
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ProPhoto 45 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 late 1970s, the 35mm film format was now being widely used by profes
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Zoom In On Better Video Soundtracks
The new Zoom ZSG-1 is a compact and lightweight on-camera shotgun microphone for video-makers. It’s supplied with a dedicated shock mount to help isolate it from camera handling noise, and it uses plug-in power from the camera’s 3.5 mm minijack audio
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Formats For Success
Shaun Mah, General Manager, Fujifilm Australia Fujifilm has been very deliberately pursuing the strategy of having two mirrorless camera systems, each designed to fulfil specific requirements – portability with the‘APS-C’ cropped sensor X mount syste
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Country Life Michael Coyne’s Village
In a many countries, villages and the rural way of life are under threat on a number of fronts – urbanisation and industrialisation, environmental changes, increasing economic pressures and agricultural production becoming big business controlled by
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Sigma And The Art Of Making Fine Lenses
Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 DG DN OS Sports The 70-200mm f/2.8 is a standard zoom for a great many photographers, thanks to the versatility of its focal range combined with a bright constant maximum aperture of f/2.8. Sigma’s new 70-200mm f/2.8 DG DN OS Spo
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Zhiyun – Creative Lighting To Go
LEDs have revolutionised photographic and video lighting, and have enabled products never thought possible only a few years ago. The Zhiyun M20 and M20C are two of them. They’re exceptionally compact – literally pocket-sized – and weigh just 200 gram
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Profoto – Travelling Lights
Pack Light With The Profoto A2 Similar in size to a soft drinks can, the Profoto A2 is not only very compact, but can output up to 100 joules of flash power and has a built-in LED modelling light. It can also be fitted with range of light-shaping too
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Ilford – Quality And Innovation In Photo Printing
Ilford Galerie Washi Papers For Fine-Art Photography With its long history in the reproduction of photographic images, Ilford is continually striving to create new products to enhance their presentation. The Galerie range of photo inkjet media combin
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Panel Beater BENQ PHOTOVUE SW272U
There’s been quite a few technological developments in both digital photography and video-making since the SW271 was introduced in 2019, and many of these are reflected in the numerous upgrades added to BenQ’s latest 27-inch model, the SW272U. There
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EFFORT AND REWARD Mark Anthony
Mark Anthony has always had a penchant for fast cars and motorbikes… in fact, “Anything with a high-powered engine and wheels is fine”. His father was a mechanic and there were always motorbikes and cars in the garage, plus his dad did a bit of racin
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Retro Rocket NIKON Z f
When the mechanical and fully-manual FM2 35mm SLR arrived in 1982, it quickly found an enthusiastic following among professional photographers still suspcious of the F3’s automation. Of course, it helped that its top shutter speed was 1/4000 second –

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