Buyers’ guide
Christmas winners!
It’s important to remember that Christmas isn’t just about giving presents to your loved ones – it’s also about receiving lots of photographic equipment that you really, really, really want. Check out the next four pages and you’ll find great gift ideas for all budgets, as well as our top picks of the year’s new gadgets – plus some stuff you didn’t even know you needed...
PRICE: £1209
CANON.CO.UK
Canon EOS 90D
Mirrorless camerasmight be getting all the headlines, but did Canon just make its best ever APS-C format DSLR?Yes it did, and it could be yours this Christmas.The 32.5-megapixel EOS 90D isn’t only the highest resolutionAPS-C camera out there, it also shoots at 10fps, with 45 cross-typeAFpoints for lightning-fast iTR focus tracking. It’s also the only Canon DSLR to offer 120fps Full HD slow-motion video and 4Kwith no crop.Then there’s the vari- angle touchscreen, themassive 1300-shot battery life and superb high ISOperformance, making it a winner for subjects fromsports to landscapes and everything in between.
PRICE: £849
NIKON.CO.UK
PRICE: £149
KASEFILTERS.COM PRICE: £230
VANGUARDWORLD.CO.UK
Vanguard VEO 2 Go 265HCB
Nikon Z 50
Kase Filters K9 Holder Kit New year, new filter system? It makes a lot of sense if you pick up Kase Filters’newK9 holder, which includes a host of smart innovations tomake filter use easier.With a newdesign that now includes a wider, 90mmmagnetic holder for a polariser, the K9 can be used on lenses as wide as 14mmwithout vignetting. In front of the polariser are three slots for 100mm filters and, oncemounted, the polariser can be turned using a cog on the side of the holder for optimumalignment.Made of lightweight aviation-grade aluminium, the K9 kit comes with a circular polariser and adapter rings.
If you’re planning on some travel photography in 2020, or just want a smaller, lighter tripod to use at home, get the Vanguard VEO 2 Go 265HCB on your Christmas list. It’s a highly adaptable, five-section, carbon-fibre tripod, which, despite having a maximum height of 164cm, packs down to only 40.5cm and weighs only 1.3kg. It’s no
weakling, though, with a top load capacity of 6kg, meaning it’ll take even large bodies and
lenses. Plus, one of the legs can be removed and used as a monopod.
Make it a mirrorless Christmas with Nikon’s new Z 50, the company’s first APS-C format mirrorless camera, which joins the full-frame Z 6 and Z 7 as part of Nikon’s revolutionary Z series. Lightweight and affordable, but with a great specification, the Z 50 uses a 20.9-megapixel DX format sensor and has an ISO range of 100-51,200 and 4K video. Its 209-point AF system includes eye AF for superbly accurate portrait focus and, despite being small, it feels very much like a proper Nikon camera.
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