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CameraClubof theYear 2014-15
Was your newyear’s resolution to enter our Camera Club of the Year competition?We sure hope so. Details of Round 3 follow, and don’t forget you can still enter Rounds 1 and 2
We’ve had a lovely few weeks admiring the images you’ve uploaded to the Camera Club of the Year pages on www.absolutephoto.com. It’s simply brilliant to see the talent that is clearly encouraged and nurtured by the many hundreds of camera clubs and photographic societies around the country. That’s made choosing our Image of the Month a difficult task. It’s taken a lot of good-natured (ahem!) debate and discussion to reach a unanimous choice, but we’ve done it; and you can see the lucky winner opposite. Remember that you can still enter Rounds 1 and 2 of the competition; you have until the final closing date of 5 May to enter all five rounds. Round 1 is water, Round 2 weather and this round it’s close-ups. We’ll announce the final two in the next two issues of PN , then all you have to do is submit the best five images for each theme for your club to be in with a chance of winning the top prize worth more than £3000: Canon kit and a day with pro David Noton. To qualify for
the Image of the Month, submit your Round 2 weather images by 2 February; for Round 3 you have until 2 March. We look forward to seeing your take on the weather and how you interpret the close-up theme. Good luck!
First, your club’s competition secretary (or whoever is going to enter eachmonth) must sign up at www.absolutephoto.com . Next, click on Members’ Area in the menu bar, then choose Camera Club of the Year 2014- How to enter
15 from the drop-down list. Simply register your camera club and follow the upload instructions.
Thewinning club gets… ... a brilliant CanonXEEDWUX450multimedia projector worth over £3000 to showoff their winning shots and 25 subscriptions to irista, plus an exclusive experience day with international landscape and travel pro, DavidNoton!
SPECS
STREET PRICE £550 SENSOR
20 megapixels, 1in, 13.2x8.8mm CMOS IMAGE DIMENSIONS 5472x3648 pixels ISORANGE 125-12,800, auto AUTOFOCUSMODES Contrast detect, multi, centre, selective single, single, continuous, face, touch, live view SHUTTER 40secs-1/2000sec METERING Multi, centre-weighted, spot SHOOTING SPEEDS 6.5fps MOVIES 1920x1080 (60p, 30p) LCD 3in tilting, 1040k, touch sensitive STORAGE
CANON XEEDWUX450 PROJECTOR
CanonPOWERSHOTG7X Sometimes small truly is beautiful and in the case of the G7 X it’s also powerful. Tucked into its sleek body is the 4.2x f/1.8-2.8 optical zoom (35mm equivalent 24-100mm), which quietly and quickly extends when you press the on/off button. Ready for action in just over a second, it’s a high spec optic and features IS technology, offering a valuable 3EV benefit. For assured shooting even in low light, the G7 X also boasts Canon’s tried-and-tested HS system, which combines with the latest DIGIC 6 processor and 20-megapixel CMOS sensor for excellent image quality. Movies are similarly well looked after, benefitting from 5-axis stabilisation and full HD quality. And with 6.5fps shooting and 31 focus points to choose from, the G7 X will help you land competition winning images time after time. It’s priced at £550 and is in the shops now.
David Noton EXPERIENCE DAY!
CANONXEEDWUX450PROJECTOR+ANEXCLUSIVEDAYWITHDAVIDNOTON The Canon XEEDWUX450multimedia projector, worth over £3000, is Canon’s most compact WUXGA projector. WUXGA stands for Widescreen Ultra Extended Graphics Array, so you get a 16:10 screen aspect ratio and a huge display resolution of up to 1920x1200 pixels. www.canon.co.uk David Noton is one of the world’s top photographers specialising in landscape and travel work. The winning club gets an exclusive day with David where he’ll be hosting a workshop and then providing an illustrated talk on his amazing images. www.davidnoton.com 25SUBSCRIPTIONSTOIRISTA The newway tomanage, organise and share your image files online, irista supports JPEGs and Raws frommost manufacturers and 10GB of storage space is available free on sign-up. The winning club, though, will get 25 free Value subscriptions that have 50GB storage capacity – which is normally £45 for a year’s subscription. www.irista.com
SD, SDHC, SDXC DIMENSIONS 103x60x40mm WEIGHT 304g
π To find out more, go to www.canon.co.uk.
Register your club today at absolutephoto.com
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