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Inbox
I read with interest the letter about finding an AP Cokin-style filter in a mixed box of goodies. I have two items that AP gave away that are used all the time. 1: A CF card pouch for four CF cards. This is now used to carry four spare Lumix G9 batte
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Viewpoint Damien Demolder
Cameras, indeed, do not lie. Photographers, on the other hand, are given to using their cameras, their darkrooms and their software applications to enhance what they saw. We’ve been doing it for a hundred years, and to a certain degree it’s expected.
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Eco-friendly Pinhole Camera Released
FINITE Industries has announced its first 35mm pinhole camera, called the fi35. The design features a unique modular system that enables you to change pinholes, film planes, frames and bodies for a variety of creative effects. The fi35, which takes 3
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Major Photo Competition Furore
THE WINNING entry of the 2023 CEWE Photo Awards, dubbed the world’s largest photography contest by the German photo-printing giant, has been suspended after the winner concealed how it was actually shot. The image shows a card game in a traditional I
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Collaboration?
Collaboration is one of the buzzwords of a social media age in which ‘creators’, ‘influencers’ and ‘brands’ get together to make ‘content’. In its purest sense, each of those parties plays an equal role in deciding how that content will look – though
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Final Analysis Damien Demolder considers...
There are a number of places I feel I have visited just because I have seen so many photographs of them. Through looking at reader pictures in this magazine and judging contests such as Landscape Photographer of the Year, I am more than familiar with
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Is The Sony Alpha 9 III Really A Game-changer?
If you’ve been following the photographic industry news recently, you’ll surely have heard of the new Sony Alpha A9 III – we published our First Look in last week’s issue. It’s a super-fast camera for sports and action photographers that boasts the w
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Keenly Priced Sports Zoom From Sigma
SIGMA has announced the 70-200mm F2.8 DG DN OS | Sports telephoto zoom for L-mount and Sony E-mount. Aimed at sports, wildlife, and wedding photographers, it completes the firm’s f/2.8 trio for full-frame mirrorless cameras, alongside the existing 14
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Capturing The Moment
Back in July, I found myself alone in a cavernous room staring at Dorothea Lange’s portrait of Florence Thompson (more commonly known as ‘Migrant Mother’). Like most people, I’ve seen this picture many times in books, newspapers and magazines, so whe
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Buying Guide
Cameras come in three types: DSLRs with optical viewfinders, mirrorless models with electronic viewing, and compact cameras with non-interchangeable lenses DSLRs traditionally have relatively large handgrips, while many mirrorless models have much s
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Xiaomi 13T Pro
Xiaomi continues to make an impression in the smartphone market, in part thanks to a partnership with Leica. Last year, the Xiaomi 13, 13 Pro, and 13 Ultra were the flagship models in the range. Now we’ve got the Xiaomi 13T Pro, a more affordable opt
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One Camera, Fixed Lens: Infinite Possibilities
Annalaura Pretaroli is an Italian photographer who began shooting photos of her Barbie dolls at the age of ten using disposable cameras that came free with washing powder, and so her photographic journey blossomed. www.annalaurapretaroli.com Instagra
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How To Layer Images With Blend Modes
Here we’re looking at some of the more advanced layer blending options in Affinity Photo 2. We’ll take the image we worked on in the previous instalment (AP 21 November) and turn it into a textured illustration using free-to-use images from the Stock
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Editorial Group EditorNigel Atherton Deputy EditorGeoff Harris Technical EditorAndy Westlake Features EditorAmy Davies Technique EditorHollie Latham Hucker Online EditorJoshua Waller Deputy Online EditorJessica Miller Online WriterIsabella Ruffatti
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It's Good To Share
Canon EOS R6, Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II, 1/20sec at f/2.8, ISO 400 ‘I took this shot one evening in Gloucestershire at Standish Woods. My aim was to look for mushrooms and this was my result.’ Instagram: @dale_hodgetts The AP Pic of the Week winn
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SECOND-HAND CLASSIC Canon EOS 80D
The EOS 80D entered Canon’s DSLR line-up in 2016. It introduced a 24.2MP APS-C sensor with an ISO range of 100-25,600, and an improved 45-point AF system with the option to select AI Servo AF for moving subjects in live view. Though no faster at shoo
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Pentax Brand’s ‘Shock’ Return
THE PENTAX WG-90, a rugged compact designed to be waterproof and shock-resistant, has been announced. It marks the return of the Pentax brand name to compact waterproof cameras, which were previously sold under the Ricoh name. The new 16MP camera has
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Tony Kemplen on the … Kodak Brownie Cresta 3
Kodak is synonymous with the Brownie brand, at least when it comes to simple mass-market cameras. The name was first used in 1900, and over the next 80 years, nearly one hundred models bore the moniker. The Brownie Cresta first emerged in 1955, and c
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Welcome
Photography has always had a complicated relationship with truth and honesty, but never has it been so easy to make the camera lie. Leica should be applauded for taking the first steps in the fight to restore some faith in the veracity of the photogr
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Join the Club
How is your club different from a traditional one? We are the club that comes to you. There are 32 Circles with around 12 members in each, open to members countrywide and beyond. We have 14 Print Circles that use postal folios issued on a monthly ro
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Port Talbot UFO Investigation Club by Roo Lewis £40, GOST Books, hardcover, 136 pages, ISBN: 9781910401989
The Welsh town of Port Talbot apparently has an ‘extremely high number of UFO sightings’, but, despite the title of this book, the project – or at least the resulting pictures within it – has very little to do with little green men. Instead, this two
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Leica M11-P
I suppose that if anyone was going to be the first to introduce a system that allowed the provenance of an image to be traced, right back to where it came from and to the original file, it would be Leica. In the new M11-P rangefinder we have just tha
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This Week’s Contributors
Technique Editor Hollie interviews experts who swear by fixed-lens premium compacts AP’s previous editor tests Leica’s new M11-P and reports on the book, Collaboration Technical Editor Andy examines the hype around the exciting new Sony A9 III and sh
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It’s All In The Head
A tripod is a tripod, right? Well, yes, but not all tripods and indeed tripod heads are made equal. When we first get started in photography, whatever subjects we shoot, photographers often quickly identify that tripods are a useful accessory to own.
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How To Combine And Mask Image Layers In Affinity Photo 2
This photograph of a fishing boat on a shingle beach has nice colours and an interesting composition but a rather plain sky – so let’s try to replace it with a different sky in Affinity Photo. Of course, there are many programs that can do this for y
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Fujifilm GFX100 II
When Fujifilm introduced its GFX medium-format mirrorless system in 2016, the aim was to deliver cameras that surpassed the image quality achievable using full-frame models. But while it’s fair to say that the original GFX 50S and the later GFX 100 s
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Salgado Honoured In Sony Awards
WORLD-RENOWNED Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has been named as the recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Photography accolade at the Sony World Photography Awards 2024 (SWPA). There will also be a retrospective showing of some of Sa
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The 11 Photo Apps You Need To Download To Your Smartphone Today
App stores are awash with photography apps, but which ones are really worth downloading? Photography apps can be powerful tools, helping you to plan and carry out your shoots, and then make the most of images you’ve captured. They’re equally handy bo
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Email ap.ed@kelsey.co.uk Editorial Group Editor Nigel Atherton Deputy Editor Geoff Harris Technical Editor Andy Westlake Features Editor Amy Davies Technique Editor Hollie Latham Hucker Online Editor Joshua Waller Deputy Online Editor Jessica Mille
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Professor Newman…Up periscope!
In my previous article, I discussed the impact of designing glass elements into phone camera lenses. Here I’ll look at another phone lens conundrum, that of ‘telephoto’ lenses. Again, we start with the absolute limit on a lens’s resolution capability
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