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An innovative camera system that lets the user vary depth-of-field after the picture is taken Lytro Illum: aworldfirst
it focuses to 0mm from the lens front without any mode changing – and then take the picture. It’s in the dedicated software where the magic happens because the captured image can be rendered as if an aperture of f/16 was used, or if you want a very shallow depth-of-field you can choose f/1. You can view the effect in real time on the computer. The image can then be output as a still image with a resolution of around eight megapixels or as a Light Field Picture File. The UK price is expected to be £1300 and the distributor is Intro2020, intro2020.co.uk. PN will be previewing the Illum as soon as samples permit.
Lytro’s first camera came out two years ago and it was a bit of a novelty rather than a serious imaging device. With the Illum, that has changed, and this innovative, well specified camera offers amazing potential to creative image-makers. Conventional cameras capture light and colour, but the Illum is different because it also captures light direction with its 40-megaray light field sensor. The built-in zoom lens has an 8x optical zoom range, from 30mm to 250mm in 35mm terms, and every image is captured at an aperture of f/2. Using its touchscreen monitor you can select where you want the main point of focus to be – and
π To find out more, go to www.lytro.com.
Amongst Hähnel’s new releases is its Captur range of remote controls, available late 2014/early 2015. For Canon, Nikon, Sony and Olympus owners, there’s the Transmitter and Receiver (£60 for the pair) for wireless triggering of camera and flash. Designed as an add on, the innovative Pro Module (£69.99) features a built-in motion, light and sound sensor as well as a socket to connect third- party motion sensors. The Timer Module is retailing at £49.99 while the IR Module which fires when its IR beam is tripped is priced at £15. Hähnel’s new range of flash accessories includes the Universal Flash 60x60cm Softbox for Speedlites (£59.99) and the Universal Flash Accessory Kit (£49.99). On the battery charging front, there’s a new ProCube dual charger (£59.99) for Sony and Olympus users and the UniPal Extra (£34.99), a universal charger with a built-in power bank and a USB to micro USB cable. String of releases fromHähnel
Storage market leaders SanDisk launched a raft of products but we only have space for a couple of highlights here. For productive photographers or those shooting 4K video, SanDisk has released the world’s largest capacity SD card, the 512GB Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I SD card, with a transfer speed of up to 95MB/s. If a super fast transfer speed is a greater priority than capacity, then you can turn to SanDisk’s Extreme PRO SDHC/SDXC UHS-II SD card – the first camera to use the UHS-II standard was the Fujifilm X-T1. With capacities from 16GB to 64GB, this card can transfer data at speeds up to 250MB/s and SanDisk has also introduced a card reader/writer to allow you to exploit this amazing performance. A SanDisk surge
π To find out more, go to www.hahnel.ie.
π To find out more, go to www.sandisk.co.uk.
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