Photography News issue 18

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Manfrotto gets ingear

Canonoffers up to £250cash

UP TO £250 CASHBACK

NEWS INBRIEF SHOOT SHELLFIES Braun has introduced two selfie sticks: the Fun and Underwater. Selfie Stick Fun is available in various bright colours with or without Bluetooth remote shooting and accepts devices up to 500g. The standard version is £14.28, the Bluetooth version is £24.84. The Underwater stick supports up to 2kg and costs £30.78. www.kenro.co.uk HIT THE STREETS A programme of street photography courses has been launched by London-based trainers StreetSnappers. Courses are available in London, Liverpool and Oxford. Founder Bryan Lloyd Duckett told PN : “What makes us different is our element of photojournalistic training. Participants work to a brief and a deadline.” Numbers are limited to six or eight Be the envy of your friends (and popular with your bank manager) with the limited edition Leica M-P Safari set. Just 1500 sets will be available worldwide featuring an engraved olive green Leica M-P, a chrome Summicron-M 35mm f/2 ASPH lens, leather strap and business card holder. On sale for £7850. uk.leica-camera.com GO ONE TO ONE Club judge, lecturer and this month’s Before the Judge columnist, Huw Alban runs a range of 1-2-1 workshops at locations on the Dorset coast all year round. Each workshop is tailored to you, so you can focus on whatever aspect you wish. Available dates and locations are on the Workshops page of his website. He also regularly gives club talks, giving back to the camera club movement that so helped his photography. He’s fully booked for 2015 and is already taking bookings for 2016. www.huwalban.com participants. Prices from £125 to £165. www.street snappers.com GREENWITH ENVY

Buy selected Canon products before 6 May and you could claim up to £250 cashback under the company’s Spring scheme. Digital SLRs, lenses, flashguns, compact cameras, video cameras and printers are all included in the scheme with £250 being offered against the Canon EOS 5D MkIII body. Other highlights include £80 cashback on an EF70-200mm f/4L IS USM and £100 off a PIXMA Pro-1 printer. If you buy any two products in the cashback offer you’ll also receive a free HD photo book worth £99.

π To find out more, go to www.canon.co.uk/springcashback.

Full UK launch for LumixCM1 The Panasonic that’s part phone, part camera soon to be available all over the country

Inaccurate framing could be a thing of the past thanks to Manfrotto’s new XPRO tripod head. It features a geared action that enables photographers to move the head one step at a time in all three axes, which makes it easier to frame images precisely. Manfrotto anticipates that the XPRO head will be most popular among macro and architecture photographers, but in reality it’ll be suitable for anyone looking for precise framing control. It weighs 750g, but will support up to 4kg of camera equipment, and it also uses the 200PL quick release plate that will be familiar to existing Manfrotto tripod users. The XPRO is available now for £169.95.

π To find out more, go to www.manfrotto.co.uk.

Nissin has introduced a wireless version of its Di700 flashgun. The Di700A features its own radio receiver that works with the new Nissin Commander Air1 for wireless shooting up to 30m away. The Commander is capable of triggering up to 21 compatible Nissingoes wireless with Di700A

The Panasonic Lumix CM1 is going to be made available in the UK and Ireland following a successful trial launch. The CM1 – the world’s only camera with a one-inch sensor, Android operating system and smartphone functionality – will be available from mid- April and is likely to offer the best image quality yet from a smartphone device. In addition to the one-inch, 20.1-megapixel sensor, the CM1 also offers a fixed wide- angle Leica lens (28mm equivalent in 3:2 ratio), a 4.7in LCD, 4K video capture and has all the features you’d expect from a top-end compact camera, including a Raw file format and focus peaking. NFC (Near Field Communication), Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity are also all available. The camera will come pre-loaded with Android 4.4 KitKat operating system, but this will be upgradeable to 5.0 Lollipop when it comes out in May. Prices are to be confirmed with a list of stockists already confirmed including Jessops, Warehouse Express, Cameraworld, LCE, Park Cameras, Wilkinsons Cameras and Harrods.

flashguns and can also be used to change flashgun settings including power output, zoom coverage and first or second curtain synchronisation. The Di700A flashgun has a guide number of 48, covers lenses from 24mm to 200mm and has high-speed synchronisation up to 1/8000sec. Canon and Nikon fits are available now with a Sony variant arriving in May. The Di700A costs £209.94, the Commander Air1 £59.94, or the two can be bought in a kit for £239.94.

π To find out more, go to www.panasonic.co.uk.

π To find out more, go to www.kenro.co.uk.

Photography News | Issue 18