Photography News Issue 37

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Lexar’smicroSD cards Lexar has introduced several microSD cards including a 256GB, high performance model. This 633x UHS-1 card has read speeds of up to 95MB/s. It comes with a USB3.0 reader for £246.99. lexar.com Samsung SSDs The Samsung 960 PRO and 960 EVO are new high performance SSD V-NAND based drives. samsung.com

Lighting specialist Phottix has announced a host of accessories including an easy to assemble, portable beauty dish, the Spartan. Available in 20in and 28in sizes priced at £99 and £129 respectively, the Spartan comes with a fabric grid, front diffuser panel and beauty dish deflector with fittings. The Spartan’s white lining and white deflector give a lovely light and it takes only a few seconds to turn it into a softbox

with the grid available, perfect for lighting smaller areas. Used with Phottix Speedrings (from £29 extra), the Spartan can fit Elinchrom, Profoto and S-bayonet heads. The Spartan can be used in conjunction with the new Cerberus Multi Mount system. This system allows the easy and secure fixing of speedlights to S-bayonet and Elinchrom light modifiers. Phottix Transfolders can also be fitted.

Various Cerebus kit options are available. The Multi Mount kit costs £99 and this includes the Griffin Universal Flash Mount, the Varos B and the S-bayonet and Elinchrom mounts. The Griffin alone is £25. Phottix Transfolders are fold-up softboxes in three sizes, 40x40cm, 60x60cm and 80x80cm priced at £69, £79 and £95 respectively. Kits including the Cereberus mount are available, and there is also a Deluxe

version of the 60x60cmTransfolder, which includes both a round grid and a mask. The Odin II trigger announced earlier this year for both Canon and Nikon cameras is now available for Sony users. It costs £160 and its feature-rich specification includes TTL flash, remote light ratio control and Overdrive Sync, which enables high-speed flash sync up to 1/8000sec depending on the camera gear in use. There's a test on the Odin II in this issue so please check that out.

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Macphun Aurora HDR 2017

Canon has added four new compact models to its PIXMA range of home printers – each model is available in different colour finishes hence they are called ‘series’. The TS5050 series is an entry-level model at £119.99 that can print from an SD card, over Wi-Fi and from the cloud. It can print up to A4 and has five individual ink tanks. Next up is the TS6050 series priced at £159.99 and this is a compact flatbed scanner and printer. Scanner resolution is 1200x2400 dpi and print output is up to A4. Again, printing can be done via Wi-Fi. Priced at £199.99 is the TS8050 series, which is also a printer/ scanner, this time using six individual ink tanks. The 9600x2400dpi resolution means it is capable of excellent photo quality output. Finally, there is the T9050 series, a specialist printer aimed at the discerning photo user. It’s priced at £279.99 and the large five-inch touchscreen makes it very easy to use. Printing can be done viaWi-Fi, NFC, Ethernet and SD card. Prints up to A4 can be made using the six individual tank ink system and there is the option of direct disc printing with the included software. Canon gets printing

The latest version of this Mac HDR software has some exciting new features added and it’s also 50% faster than the previous version. New features include a Polarize tool for even more vivid skies and to reduce glare; greatly improved noise reduction; an improved Top and Bottom Adjustment tool for more flexible control of exposure, contrast and vibrance. Add batch processing, Luminosity and Radial Masking tools and Advanced Tone Mapping and you have a powerful software. Pre-order price is £65 – a saving of a whopping £142 off its guide price.

Samyang’s top duo

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Korean lens maker Samyang has announced two premium lenses, an 14mm f/2.4 and an 85mm f/1.8. Both these prime lenses are manual focus only and have amazing resolving power to suit shooting stills and video on high resolution cameras. The 85mm f/1.2 is for full-frame cameras and features ten elements in seven groups with one aspherical lens and two high refractive lenses.

With 18 elements in 14 groups, the 14mm f/2.4 is Samyang’s most advanced lens yet. Among its list of special lens elements are two aspherical lenses, one hybrid aspherical lens, two extra-low dispersion lenses and one high refractive lens. Prices and availability of both lenses have yet to be confirmed.

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