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Head to Liverpool for the biggest Digital Splashever
Splash 2017 has an action- packed line-up of great talks and workshops, walks and exhibitions. Here are some of the highlights: Paul Gallagher and Michael Pilkington of Aspect2i photography tours will be talking landscapes, black & white photography and sharing their top post-processing and printing tips. Jeff Ascough, Kate Hopewell Smith and Brent Kirkman will be talking all things weddings and portraits. Fujifilm X-Photographer Elke Vogelsang will share the secrets of her dog portraits. David Lindo, The Urban Birder, will be looking to the skies to share his inspiring photography with bird lovers. Astro whizz Alyn Wallace will take us stargazing with his amazing night sky images, explaining how to literally take photography to another level. Fujifilm X-Photographer Paul Sanders will look at how Mother Nature can often give you ‘what you need, rather than what you want’. Digital Splash takes place at the Exhibition Centre Liverpool on 7 and 8 October. You can currently register for free entry, and tickets for seminars and photo walks are on sale now at digitalsplash.tv/ speakers/ Register for the show and Wilkinson Cameras will send you a voucher to enjoy 10% off any talk tickets purchased. Where andwhen
The latest addition to Olympus’s Micro Four Thirds collection is the E-M10Mark III, due to go on sale frommid-September with a body price of £629.99. Go for the camerawith theM.ZuikoDigital 14-42mm f/3.5-5.5II R standard zoom and it’s just £20 more. With typically stylish good looks, compact size and feature rich, the E-M10 Mark III is sure to find wide appeal, especially among those who want a high performing camera that is light and small. The upgrades from the Mark II to Mark III aren’t that great, but they are potentially significant. The 4/3in LiveMOS sensor is the same in both cameras and boasts 16.1 megapixels, but in the Mark III it is now linked with Olympus’s latest image processor, the TruePic VIII. To help get the sharpest possible pictures with slower shutter speeds, the Mark III has 5-axis image stabilisation, a feature that has proved itself very effective on other Olympus cameras. There is also an Advanced Photo mode that helps photographers enjoy features such as Live Composite without having to venture into the camera’s menu. The autofocus systemisworth amention. It nowfeatures 121AFpoints – up from 81 on the Mark II – covering most of the image area so you can pinpoint focus on almost any part of a scene. There are the usual refinements of face and eye detection. Other notable features include: a top 8.6fps shooting speed, a mechanical shutter with a 60secs to 1/4000sec range, a silent electronic shutter of 30secs to 1/16,000sec, Wi-Fi and a range of Art filters. The E-M10 Mark III will be tested in Photography News as soon as samples permit. E-M10MkIII
Digital Splash is the fastest growing consumer photography show in the north of England and this year takes place on 7 and 8October.WhenDavid Parkinson, managing director of award-winning independent retailer Wilkinson Cameras and mastermind behindDigital Splash, set out to create an inspiring show for photographers across the north, he was totally unaware of the huge success that would follow. “Our holistic approach is so much more than just selling cameras – our mission is to be with photographers everystepoftheway,”saysDavid.“The showwill have all the latest hardware on show with all the top brands exhibiting, with their own teams on hand for photographers to pick their brains. There’s the opportunity to try before you buy, which is crucial when making a significant investment.” Now in its eighth year, the show has grown substantially year on year – with more than 6200 visitors through the door last October. David’s
experienced and passionate team live and breathe photography all year round, with the Digital Splash show the culmination of a lot of planning, hardwork and dedication. David continues: “The growth of the show has been phenomenal and the step up to our new Liverpool location has raised the event to yet another level and scale. The purpose- built venue boasts the best show facilities available – with full high- definition theatres, great exhibition space, easy access, parking and accommodation nearby. You can even get a decent coffee at a reasonable price! “Also, based in the heart of such a vibrant city, the location is a photographer’s dream, with amelting pot of spectacular architecture both old and new, street photography galore, plus endless urban landscapes and ‘big skies’ across thewater.”
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Photography News has teamed up with expert photo printers LumeJet to bring you the chance of seeing your favourite photographs produced as a glorious L.Type prints. Win this free-to- enter contest and you will have £200 to spend onL.Type prints fromthe LumeJet website. L.Type by LumeJet is the latest step in the company’s development and represents the culmination of over 15 years of research into silver halide. LumeJet has always been passionate about printing beautiful photography and now with L.Type, the fusion of classic analogue silver halide materials, cutting–edge digital print technology and super-accurate colour management enables the faithful replication of a photographic vision with hitherto unseen precision and sensitivity. To be in with the chance of winning £200 worthof L.Typeprints all youhave todo is enter
your picture showing an aspect of city (town or village) life. Onlyone imageperentry isallowedandonly UK residents can enter. Judging will be done by PN ’s editor and the closing date is 11.59pm, 9 October 2017. For full terms and conditions please see photographynews.co.uk. The winner of last month’s contest for best coastline imagewaswon byDavid Jenner. To enter (it’s free) visit photographynews. co.uk/win, click on the LumeJet competition and submit your entry.
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