Photography News Issue 30

32 Camera Club of the Year IN ASSOCIATIONWITH

Photography News Issue 30 absolutephoto.com

Round 5: The Power of Nature Closes: 04/03/2016

Camera Club of the Year 2015-16 It’s the last chance saloon. Four clubs have qualified for the final so there is only one berth left. It’s time to pull out all the stops

How to enter

First, your club’s competition secretary (or whoever is going to enter each month) must sign up at absolutephoto.com . Next, click on Members’ Area in the menu bar, then choose Camera Club of the Year 2015-16 from the drop-down list. Simply register your camera club and follow the upload instructions.

It seemed only five minutes ago that Camera Club of the Year 2015-16 was launched and already it’s the time to enter the final round. So, make sure your club’s entry is the strongest you can manage because there is just one berth left in this year’s final. We changed the entry process after feedback from last year’s successful event. For this year, we have had, in effect, five separate monthly competitions with the hightest-scoring camera club each

month qualifying for the final. The finalists will be told at the same time what will be required of them to keep it as fair as possible, but it will come as no surprise that it’ll be a matter of submitting a bunch of images – how many and on what themes will be revealed to the finalists shortly. If your club hasn’t had a go yet, it’s not too late; the final round’s theme is the Power of Nature. Turn over for Canon ambassador David Noton’s advice on tackling it.

To on absolutephoto.com. Then, go to the Members’ Area in the menu bar and click on Competitions and choose Camera Club of Year 2015-16 from the drop-down list. Then follow the instructions to upload images. We need five images from every club – make sure they’re on the theme. Any club or group is eligible to enter so long as there are at least five members. Online groups, internal company clubs and those clubs not affiliated to the PAGB can enter. enter, register

After the closing date, the images will be judged by the experts at Photography News and top scoring club from that month will qualify for the grand final and win a Canon PIXMA PRO-1000 A3+ printer worth £499.99. The overall winners earn the accolade of the Photography News Camera Club of the Year 2015-16 and win a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1000, a professional 12-ink A2 inkjet printer worth £1199.99. Good luck! Canon is targeting its new EOS 80D at those camera users who love shooting pictures and are on the cusp of getting more creative their photography. To accompany them on that exciting journey they are after a quality product that is flexible, capable and delivers a very high standard of picture quality. The EOS 80D could be their ideal camera. It uses a new 24.2-megapixel APS-C format sensor linked to Canon’s renowned DIGIC 6 processor. The native ISO range is 100 to 16,000, expandable to 25,600, so the EOS 80D is fully capable of handling very low lighting levels. That also includes its new autofocus system. It is very

Canon’s latest enthusiast DSLR

The Camera Club of the Year wins… … a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1000. This brand-new professional quality A2 printer is worth £1199.99. It uses a 12-colour Lucia PRO inkset that includes four blacks for excellent monochrome output. On appropriate media, Lucia PRO inks have impressive lightfast qualities. … an exclusive day with renowned professional landscape and travel photographer David Noton, enjoying a workshop and an illustrated talk.

sensitive and capable of accurate focusing even in full moonlight. The system uses 45 points, all of which are cross-type sensors so regardless of whether you’re shooting upright or horizontal format pictures, it can deal with all sorts of potentially tricky patterns too. The touch-sensitive monitor is a vari-angle design so ideal for shooting at low or high shooting positions. Add Full HD video capability, Wi-Fi connectivity for convenient image sharing on social media and you have a top DSLR with plenty of potential for users to grow into. canon.co.uk

Overall winner prize: CANON imagePROGRAF PRO-1000

Overall winner prize: DAVID NOTON exclusive day

Monthlywinners

The five monthly winners each get a Canon PIXMA PRO-100S worth £499.99. This is a professional quality A3+ printer, featuring an eight colour inkset with excellent lightfast qualities.

Its built-in Wi-Fi capabilities means wireless connection is possible so prints can be made from tablets and phones as well as the computer. canon.co.uk