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Photography News Issue 22 absolutephoto.com
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Sling your hook Five camera straps and slings have been brought out by Optech to give you the ultimate in accessibility and security when you’re on the go. The Utility Camera Sling-Duo (£36.99) gives you quick access to up to two pieces of gear, whilst the Triple Carrier (£52.99) takes it one step further with room for three cameras or a combo of camera and binoculars. There’s a sling designed specifically for mirrorless and small SLRs (£12.99), allowing you to carry your camera discreetly to the side but still enabling easy gliding into shooting position. On top of that, Optech has released a strap for mirrorless cameras too, retailing at £17.99. Lastly there’s a tripod loop costing £15.99 that converts your existing strap into a tripod strap.
Triple release fromTokina A new lens and two new filters make up Tokina’s latest releases. The Cinema 50-135mm T3.0 lens is compact and has a nine-bladed curved iris for spot-on bokeh. Aspherical and Low Dispersion glass minimise distortion. It’s retailing at £4499.99. The first of the filters is the Hydrophillic Coating Protector filter that’s designed to prevent water from beading on the surface when shooting in wet conditions. It’s available in seven sizes, from 77mm to 127mm, with the smallest costing £299. The other filter, the Pro IRND precisely controls the amount of light entering the lenswithout affecting the colour. Available in either round or square sizes, prices start from £129.99 for the 82mm round filter.
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Doubledup Kenko’s Teleplus HD DGX 2.0 and the 1.4x DGX teleconverters have now been released in a Canon fit. The HD DGX 2.0 (£279.99), as the name suggests, doubles the length of your lens whilst still enabling full AF control when you’re shooting with a lens with an aperture of f/2.8 or brighter. The Teleplus 1.4x HD DGX (£219.99) gives you 1.4x extra focal length and again offers full AF with lenses of f/4 or brighter. Both offer compact, low-cost ways of expanding your lenses.
Conquering the twin enemies of any travel or landscape photographer, Sirui has engineered the Wave & Wilderness series of tripods featuring seals designed to keep the dust and water out. These tripods can be submerged up to their shoulders in water and still deliver exceptional stability. They come with rubber feet for use on hard surfaces and spikes for gaining traction on softer ground. Prices for the W&W series start at £599.99. Two new models join Sirui’s existing travel tripod range, so there’s no need to look any further if what
you are after is lightweight but impressively stable tripods. Reaching up to 147cm and folding down to a minimum length of 40cm, they each feature a retractable centre column and come in aluminium or eight-layer carbon-fibre, costing from £169.99 or £269.99 respectively. A new video monopod with stand spider has also been made available (from £349.99) as well as a new tilt head, L-20S (£199.99).
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