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Photography News | Issue 54 | photographynews.co.uk
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Tenba wraps and bags
Mastering Exposure Photography is a new book from Ammonite Press, exploring the challenges of photographing scenes that the eye often cannot see. Packed with stunning images and expert advice from the author, Antony Zacharias, the book covers everything from star trails and cityscapes at dusk to painting with light and using blur creatively. Available from this month, Mastering Long Exposure Photography is priced £19.99 and the book spans 176 pages including hundreds of beautiful full-colour examples. Long exposures made easy Long
Tenba is offering a new series of Protective Wraps for cameras, lenses and photo accessories. Available in three sizes and four colours – black, grey, blue and lime – the wraps can be used to protect
bodies, lenses, flashes, filters and all sorts of other accessories. Made of soft, brushed tricot, water-resistant nylon and foam, the wraps use Velcro fasteners allowing you to secure them anywhere on the material, and therefore hugging any shape of accessory. A 12in wrap is £14, a 16in £17, and a 20in wrap £20.
Tenba’s Cooper range of camerabags is alsogrowing with four new models unveiled at TPS. The Cooper range eschews a traditional camera bag look, instead going for a charcoal grey ‘lifestyle’ finish, and uses a water-resistant Cordura Canvas peach wax cotton outer, while the bottom of each has a waterproof leather pad.
The Cooper 6 shoulder bag (at £100) is for mirrorless systems or small DSLRs, holding a body and up to two lenses, with a slip pocket on the back for a smartphone and a zippedpocket on the front for smaller items. The Cooper 15 Slim messenger bag (at £215) will swallow a CSC or DSLR with extra space for up to six lenses, including an 70-200mm f/2.8. There’s also space for a 15in laptop, a trolly strap, external pockets and aWeatherWrap. Of the two backpacks launched, the Cooper Slim Backpack (at £150) has a classic
daysack design allowing general gear in the top section, with a dedicated, padded, removable camera protection insert below. In the latter you can fit a mirrorless or compact DSLR, with three additional lenses up to 24-70mm f/2.8 in size. There’s also room for a nine-inch tablet and other accessory pockets. The Cooper DSLR Backpack (at £170), pictured left, is much like the Slim in design, but fits larger DSLR camera systems, holding a DSLR body, three lenses including a 70- 200mm, and up to a ten-inch tablet.
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tenba.com/uk
Benro goes through the gears
News in brief
Benro has revealed an innovative new filter system, a new geared tripod head and additions to its Slim tripod range. First up, the new filter system includes a patented 100mm holder design that incorporates a screw-in polariser bay and geared adjustment for square filters. The FH100M2 therefore allows precise adjustment to the height of graduated NDs; a grooved frame is fitted to the filter, which is slotted into the mechanism and moved up or down with the turn of a knob. The Benro FH100M2 is designed for use with both the 100x100mm and 100x150mm filters. The range of filters includes resin models (a four-stop ND, two- to four-stop hard and soft grads, and reverse grads) and glass (six- and 10-stop NDs, and two- to five-
The two new tripods in the Benro Slim range are a travel and a video model. The Slim Travel Kit will be available in aluminium or carbon (at £100 or £135), while the Slim Video Tripod Kit is just in aluminium (at £120). Designed for CSCs and small DSLRs, both are light and streamlined. The Travel tripods weigh 1.2kg and 1.07kg respectively, use five-section legs with twist locks, reach a maximum of 130cm, packing to 31.5cm, have a maximum load of 4kg and a compact N00ball head is included. The Video Kit weighs 1.48kg, has four sections, comes with an S2 Pan & Tilt head and has a top load of 2.5kg. Maximumheight is 147cm and it folds to 50cm.
Beautiful newBillingham Billingham has added the Hadley Small Pro to its range. The bag fits CSCs, rangefinders and mid-sized DSLRs and is rugged and weather resistant. There are six colour combinations and it'll cost you £200.
stop grads). Price for a 100x150mm grad is £45, a glass 100x100mm 10-stop ND is £100 and a glass 100x150mm grad is £130. Next up, the GD3WH Geared Head allows precision movement along three axes, allowing a vertical tilt of +90/-30º and landscape tilt
of -90/+30º and uses an Arca-style quick release plate. For large movements, the gearing can be disengaged, and it has three built-in bubble levels. The head is made frommagnesium alloy, weighs 0.87kg and has a maximum load of 6kg.
billingham.co.uk
benroeu.com
LeicaStealthEdition The Leica M Monochrom (Typ 246) has been given a special edition in striking matte black. Designed by Marcus Wainwright of fashion label rag & bone, it costs £13,000.
Making a name for yourself
A Port photographer has snapped up a national photography prize. Adrian Waine won the specialist EEF National Manufacturing gifted Ellesmere
Photography Award, now in its eight year. The competition sought images that captured the essence of modern manufacturing in traditional or high-tech sectors,
with Adrian’s image showing stone-cutting using diamond tooling and compressed air.
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