Innholdsfortegnelse for Vol.71 No.5 i Pro Photo

Professional photographers are presented with an overwhelming choice of options – for example, Canon versus Nikon, D-SLR versus mirrorless camera and even film versus digital. There are also many Websites to choose from when it comes to hosting images. For the past decade, professional photographers all over the world have selected the award-winning Zenfolio as the platform for displaying and selling images online. With its extensive list of features, intuitive platform and strong customer support, Zenfolio has been voted the number one Website service. Now, celebrating its tenth anniversary in January – and under the new leadership of former eBay executive, Arnaud Collin – Zenfolio is pledging to be more than just another hosting site. The company says it wants to be a professional photographer’s greatest business partner. In a…

It is always a challenge to bring something new to a format that is established, but this year the sixth Head On Photo Festival managed to add flavour to an already successful recipe with the introduction of the Festival Hub located in the majestic Sydney Town Hall in the heart of the city’s CBD. Geographically speaking, Head On has always felt too spread out and the Hub solved that issue immediately. Here nine major exhibitions were on show, spanning documentary, fine-art and photojournalism. The Hub was also the venue for workshops, screenings and talks, many of which were held during the day as a way of engaging the city’s workers. Festival Director Moshe Rosenzveig programmed The Hub to deliver “…a taste of the breadth of the festival. We are appealing…

THERE IS, OF COURSE, A SONY- badged 35mm f2.8 prime available for the A7 cameras, but it’s a very long way off what Zeiss is offering with the Loxia 35mm f2.0, particularly in terms of the build quality. The Sony lens is also distinctly ‘new age’ so it’s an autofocus model, lacks an aperture collar and plastic is the predominant material used in its construction. There’s also the new Zeiss-designed 35mm f1.4 Distagon which is obviously faster but is at least twice as bulky and weighs 630 grams. The Loxia 35mm f2.0 has a nine-element optical design which includes one made from glass with anomalous partial dispersion characteristics, primarily to assist with the minimising of chromatic aberrations. This lens is as much about its visual characteristics as its technical performance…

SONY’S OWN CLOSEST PRIME LENS offering in this category is another Zeiss-designed model, the Sonnar 55mm f1.8 which is actually quite close to the Loxia 50mm in terms of size and weight, and does have a weatherised barrel construction. Nevertheless, this is again an autofocus lens without a manual focusing collar so it doesn’t have quite the same traditionalist appeal. The Loxia 50mm f2.0 has a six-element optical construction (in four groups) and it’s again very highly corrected for both distortion and chromatic aberrations to the extent that neither are ever likely to be an issue. There’s slight vignetting evident at f2.0 and f2.8, but it’s completely gone by f4.0. The uniformity of sharpness across the frame is again affects by some field curvature at the larger apertures, but the…

Panasonic continues to demonstrate it’s in tune with what photographers want in a mirrorless camera. Following the SLR-style Lumix G7 launched a couple of months ago comes the Lumix GX8, the company’s latest rangefinder-style model. The GX8 replaces the highly popular GX7 and retains that model’s novel tilting viewfinder arrangement, but has an all-new sensor, the advanced ‘4K Photo’ modes introduced with the G7, an adjustable-angle monitor screen, faster continuous shooting speeds and an upgraded autofocusing system. The EVF tilts through 90 degrees and employs an OLED-type panel with a resolution of 2.36 million dots. The magnification is increased to 0.77x (35mm format equivalent) and the scene coverage is 100 percent. A larger eyecup addresses the issue of ‘light leakage’ which was problematic on the GX7. The 7.62 cm monitor…

If you’re still getting your head around Canon’s 50 megapixels D-SLRs, the message from the company is that you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Canon had released details of various development projects which will see it move the Cinema EOS system up to 8K video and its EOS D-SLR system up to 120 megapixels. What’s more, also in the pipeline is an ‘APSH’ format sensor (which is slightly larger than ‘APS-C’, giving a focal length magnification factor of 1.3x) with a staggering resolution of 250 megapixels. This CMOS-type sensor has an imaging area of 29.2x20.2 millimetres and delivers an output of 19,580x12,600 pixels. Canon also claims an ultra-high signal readout speed of 1.25 billion pixels per second which had been made possible through circuit miniaturisation and enhanced signal-processing technology. As a…

Announced back at Photokina 2014, Leica’s third iteration of its S medium format D-SLR is finally available. Designated the Typ 007, the new model retains the same bodyshell as its predecessors, but as has been happening across the digital medium format world, it switches from a CCD sensor to a CMOStype imager. The imaging area remains at 30x45 millimetres and the effective pixel count is 37.5 million, giving a pixel size of six microns. The sensor is paired with Leica’s ‘Maestro II’ processor which enables continuous shooting at up to 3.5 fps and 4K DCI video recording at 24 fps. The buffer memory has a capacity of 2.0 GB which accommodates a burst of 15 RAW files (in the Adobe DNG format). JPEGs can be captured at one of three…

Today a Web presence is an integral part of magazine and newspaper publishing so you’ll find ProPhoto – or, at least, some of it – at www.avhub.com.au. Here you can also visit the other titles in the stable of Next Media AudioVisual Group magazines, including sister publication Camera. Have a look at these because you might find another magazine that you’d like to buy from your newsagent or subscribe to. If you’re interested in hi-fi, video, home theatre, ‘smart home’ technologies or car audio, check out Sound+Image, Australian Hi-Fi or Australian InCar Entertainment (just follow the links from the AVHub home page). The Website carries the latest news plus selected articles from both the current and past issues of ProPhoto, including a selection of test reports. Of course, there’s a…

After working for eight years as a graphic designer during which time he frequently found himself in photographic studios art directing, Lachlan Moore decided he really wanted to be behind the camera so he “jumped ship”and began studying photography as well as working as an assistant. Today he runs Rokeby Studios in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood and works in a variety of areas including advertising, architecture, people and film stills. He describes his photographic style as “honest and cinematic”. His great love is the ocean which fuels his daily @onemoore_insta feed, inspired by coastal living, open space, big skies and spectacular light. Previously all this photography was done above the water line, but now he has underwater housings for his new Olympus OM-D E-M1 and E-M5 Mark II cameras,…

The new DS80DX duplex professional photographic printer offers you the professional photographer and/or photo retailer the opportunity to offer something extra for your clients and sets you apart from your competitors. The DNP DS80DX is an innovative printer that allows you to print both single and double-sided photo’ pages onsite, in your shop or studio. The low investment and high-quality production offered by the DS80DX ensures satisfaction for your clients and growth for your business. Long waiting times are a thing of the past – being able to say “it’s ready in a few minutes!” puts you way ahead of your competitors. With the DS80DX you can offer your clients a variety of photo book sizes ranging from 15cm x 20cm - 20cm x 30cm and of course the square…

Wacom’s new Bamboo Spark is described as a “smart folio” and it allows you to capture and store handwritten notes or sketches for subsequent reference or further development. Once written on the notepad, with the push of a button, the Bamboo Spark synchronises this information to the Wacom Cloud for storage. Wacom’s Bamboo Spark combines a traditional ink pen with the company’s core digital pen technology in a smart pen and smart folio. You write and sketch with Bamboo Spark’s traditional ink pen on most A5 paper (i.e. 148x210 millimetre). The smart folio’s EMR (Electro-Magnetic Resonance) board – which communicates with the Bamboo Spark pen enabling the traditional ink-on-paper writing or sketching to be converted instantly to digital content. Files can be saved in the WILL (Wacom Ink Layer Language),…

While new digital cameras tend to arrive at a rapid rate, it can be several years between an A3+ printer and its updated model. After four years, the Epson SureColor SC-P600 is the successor to the venerable Stylus Pro R3000. The new SC-P600 (the “P”, by the way, stands for “Photo”) is essentially the same as the out-going R3000, but comes in a revised casing and has a new inkset, extended connections to remote devices and a 6.8 cm LCD tilt-adjustable touch screen to control most functions. The SureColor range is progressively replacing the Stylus Pro line-up, with the A2+ format SC-P800 – under testing here right now – announced most recently. We might concede that inkjet printers have reached a plateau of image realism where little else can be…

SLOWLY BUT SURELY MIRRORLESS CAMERAS are moving into the professional end of the market. Olympus’s OM-D E-M1 and Panasonic’s Lumix GH4 leading the way for the Micro Four Thirds format. Fujifilm’s XT-1 and Samsung’s NX-1 are flying the flag for ‘APS-C’ sensors, but perhaps most interestingly, Sony’s Alpha 7 Series offers the appeal of a full-35mm size sensor in a more compact form than any rival D-SLR. Sony has got in here ahead of either Canon or Nikon (which surely have to offer something similar before too long) and, after a short period of limited lens choices, it’s now full steam ahead for the full-frame version of Sony’s E Mount… better known as the FE mount. Not only has Sony put the pedal to the metal with new FE mount…