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Photography News Issue 26 absolutephoto.com
Camera Club of the Year IN ASSOCIATIONWITH
Camera Club of the Year 2015-16 Glory and great prizes from Canon await the camera club who wins this year’s challenge. It’s easy to enter so what are you waiting for?
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.
Welcome to the launch of this year’s search for the UK’s most talented camera club. Last year, with more than 50 clubs fighting it out, Amersham Photographic Society emerged victorious winning by a single point. It was a close run thing so well done to Amersham PS. In association with Canon, this year’s Camera Club of the Year competition promises to be bigger and better than ever. After feedback from last year, the contest’s process is changing.
To start, register your club on absolutephoto.com. Next, click on Member’s Area in the menu bar and choose Camera Club of Year 2015-16 from the drop-down list. Follow the instructions to upload images. Each month we’ll set a subject theme and we want to see five images from five different club members on that theme. Any club or group is eligible to enter so long as there are at least five members and that includes online groups and internal company clubs.
After the closing date each month, the images will be judged by the experts at Photography News and the top scoring club from that month will qualify for the grand final andwin a Canon PIXMAPRO- 100S A3+ printer worth £499.99. Once a club has qualified for the grand final they needn’t enter again – they can if they want but they are not eligible for the monthly prize. Clubs can enter at any point even at the fifth and final round. After the five monthly rounds, we’ll have
five grand finalists and they will be asked to submit a further selection of pictures and it is from these images that the overall winning club will be decided. The themes for the final judging will be made known to the finalists at the same time after the five rounds. The overall winners earn the accolade of the Photography News Camera Club of the Year 2015-16 and a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1000, a professional, 12-ink A2 printer worth £1199.99.
Canon EOS 5DS
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.
The game-changing Canon EOS 5DS boasts 50.6-megapixels, the highest resolution available on any 35mm camera. The EOS 5DS R has the same features list as the 5DS but uses a low-pass cancellation filter that gives even more detailed pictures. The incredible resolution is only one
exciting aspect of this highly featured camera. Its AF system employs 61 points that can be used together or grouped into movable zones for off-centre shooting. Exposure is deadly accurate thanks to the 150k RGB+IR metering sensor and there is a full range of exposure modes available. Add weather sealing, dual memory slots, Full HD movies, a programmable interval timer and much more, and you have an amazing DSLR that can deliver the most critical image quality.
Overall winner prize: CANON imagePROGRAF PRO-1000
Specs
Street price
Metering system 150k pixel RGB+IR sensor. Evaluative, partial, centre-weight and spot metering patterns Exposuremodes PASM ISO range 100-6400, with expansion to 50 and 12,800
Shutter range 30secs to 1/8000sec, B Continuous shooting Up to 5fps Monitor 3.2in LCD, Clear View II TFT, 1040k dots Dimensions (wxhxd) 152x116.4x76.4mm Weight 845g body only
Overall winner prize: DAVID NOTON exclusive day
£2999
Resolution 50.6 megapixels Sensor
24x36mm CMOS with Dual DIGIC processor Autofocus system TTL-CT SIR with dedicated CMOS sensor. 61-point AF system that works down to -2EV
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
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