Photography News Issue 30 absolutephoto.com
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Win a week’s holiday in the Dordogne
French Photographic Holidays is based in the beautiful foothills of the Dordogne and run by Paul and Pam Edmunds. In this issue, we have the chance for you to win a week’s tailor-made photo holiday for two so you can enjoy the scenery and Paul and Pam’s wonderful hospitality for yourself. It’s a prize package worth over £1900 and includes photographic tuition, too. Entering is easy. First you have to answer two questions. Get those right and you will be entered into the contest’s second stage where we will ask
you to send us one of your best landscape images. The winner will be informed by 8 April and the week’s holiday must be taken the week beginning 30 April. Part of the prize is also that we’ll talk to you about your trip, the experiences you enjoyed and the great pictures you took in the Dordogne in a later issue of Photography News . See page 31 for more details on how you can win this clicking holiday to France.
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Profoto updates a classic
Profoto has a new beauty dish for its B1 and B2 Off Camera Flash (OCF) systems. The OCF Beauty Dish is available now at the cost of £144, and for the price you get the dish, deflector plate, diffuser and a carrying bag. The OCF Speedring is bought separately at around £70. The Beauty Dish comes with a choice of white or silver inner; white gives amore even, slightly softer light while if you prefer a more punchy, high-contrast effect the silver option is the one to go for. Profoto has also introduced three different OCF Gel sets for those photographers who are keen to get creative with some coloured filters. The OCF Color Gel Starter kit costs £72 and includes ten popular colours as
well as the OCF Grid and Gel Holder. You also get two attachment pieces that enable you to switch between colours quickly. The OCF Color CorrectionGel pack features 20 filters in different strengths of orange, blue and green that are designed to balance flash with sunlight, moonlight and fluorescent light respectively. The final kit is the OCF Color Effects Gel pack and here you can get to grips with 20 coloured gels including Rose Pink, Gold Amber and Peacock Blue. The gel packs are priced at £48 each.
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Premiumcompacts fromNikon
Not one but three top-end compacts have been introduced by Nikon. The new DL family features fixed Nikon zoom lenses so you pick the option that best suits your needs. There's the DL24-85mm f/1.8- 2.8, the DL18-50mm f/1.8-2.8 and DL24-500mm f/2.8-5.6 priced at £549.99, £679.99 and £749.99 respectively. The quoted focal lengths are equivalents in the 35mm format. Each DL camera sports a 1in CX-format sensor that can give 20.8-megapixel stills in JPEG or Raw and 4K movies at 30p/25p. Lens aside, there are differences between the DL camera bodies; the DL24-500mm f/2.8-5.6 has a 2359k-dot OLED electronic viewfinder and a monitor while the others are monitor only. Focusing is handled by an Advanced Hybrid AF systemwhile the EXPEED 6A processor is capable of shooting at 60fps with focus fixed at the first frame
or 20fps with continuous AF. Image stabilisation is provided by Nikon’s Dual Detect Optical VR system. SnapBridge, a low-powered Bluetooth technology, is featured on all DL cameras and allows constant connection between the camera and smart devices. The DL series will be in the shops later this summer. Nikon also added to its Coolpix range with the B700, A900, B500 and A300 priced at £359.99, £329.99, £219.99 and £129.99 respectively. Stocks will be available from April. The B700 has a 60x optical zoom lens while the A900 has a 35x zoom, and both offer 4K UHD video shooting and 20.3-megapixel still images. The B500 has a 16-megapixel sensor and a 40x optical zoom and the A300 has an 8x optical zoomwith a 20.1-megapixel resolution.
Polaroid’s Panorama EyeBall head can rotate through 360° and lets you shoot panoramas remotely. It is available for £44.99 and is suitable for action cameras, CSCs and even smaller DSLRs. The free-standing mini tripod can be used on its own or mounted to a regular tripod. An infrared remote offers five speeds of rotation and the option of clockwise or anti clockwise travel. Its movement is smooth so it's ideal for shooting video footage, too. On a full charge the EyeBall head can offer three hours of continuous use and is powered by a USB rechargeable battery. Panoramas with Polaroid
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