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Photography News | Issue 50 | photographynews.co.uk
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Leading maker Rotolight has added Elinchrom Skyport support to its AEOS light. The AEOS is a versatile and powerful bi-colour LED light and high-speed sync flash in one unit designed for portrait workers and movie makers. It is priced at £899 and is available for Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic and LED light
Sony with Fujifilm due shortly. With Skyport integration you now have wireless control over colour temperature and power with a Skyport transmitter, which makes for even more convenient use especially if you’re using a number of lights.
Hahnemuhle hits the canvas Hahnemuhle’s Cézanne Canvas is a new heavyweight canvas material for fine art inkjet printing. It is a natural cotton material free of optical brighteners and the finish features a finely woven surface. A wide colour gamut and the ability to deliver deep blacks means this 430gsm-weight paper will suit a wide range of subjects and its elasticity makes it ideal for stretchier frames. Cézanne Canvas is available in various roll sizes, with 24inx5m costing £43.
X-Rite’s i1Studio isaprofessional colour management solution designed to get your pictures absolutely spot-on from capture through to final print. ThekitincludesColorChecker camera calibration software and
test chart, i1Studio software for monitors, scanners and projectors and the i1Studio spectrometer profiling device. The whole X-Rite i1Studio outfit costs £450 and is available from an X-Rite retailer or direct from its website.
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Wireless recharging
We all know the importance of having our phones powered up and PNY’s QI wireless charging base lets you charge compatible devices (including the latest
Apple and Samsung phones) without the need for extra cables. It costs £35.99.
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The Environmental Photographer of the Year (EPOTY) contest is run by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) and this year’s winner is Quoc Nguyen Linh Vinh, from Vietnam, for ‘The hopeful eyes of the girl making a living by rubbish’. Taken in the waste dump of the city of Kon Tum in Vietnam, the poignant image captures a child and mother making a living from collecting waste. EPOTY winner
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Fancy a new film SLR? Reflex has been created by a team of photographers, designers and tech people. If you want to get involved, the Reflex Kickstarter campaign runs through to 7 December 2017. Reflex will be available to early bird backers at £350, before moving to the standard price of £399. Backers will receive their Reflex camera in August 2018 and, shortly after, the productwill go on sale. The Reflex has some unique features. The I-Plate means the supplied M42 lens mount plate can be swapped for a Nikon F, Canon FD or Olympus OM plate. It costs £35. There’s also the I-Pack, a daylight interchangeable film back so you can change films quickly or have different film loaded ready to go – it costs £65. Film lives
Newbroncolor light shaper The broncolor Litepipe P is an innovative light shaper for its flash system aimed at interior, people and product photographers. It is a portable tube-shaped diffuser that lets you spread light all round, and two add-on reflectors are supplied to let you control it. It’s priced at £940. Samsung honoured The Samsung EVO Plus 256GB card has been honoured by the CES2018 Innovation Awards in the digital imaging category. The EVO Plus 256GB memory card raises the bar for capacity and performance of MicroSD cards thanks to Samsung’s advanced V-NAND technology. For the full story see the website below. manfrotto.co.uk
Describing his experience taking the picture, Vinh said “The child was happy, looking at the dark clouds and chatting to her mother. This was so touching. She should
have been enjoying her childhood and playing with friends rather than being there.”
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On-screenwith BenQ
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BenQ’s latest monitor is called the SW271, a 27-in model with 4k and its new ACCOLOR technology to allow users to have complete colour control over their images with hardware and its own proprietary Palette Master Elements software. The SW271 is designed for experienced photographers and
the 10-bit screen shows over 1.07 billion colours, is HDR10 enabled and there is an USB-C interface for transmitting video and data signals using one cable. Plus there are convenient features likeGamut Duo, PBP (picture by picture) and PIP (picture in picture) to make comparing images easy, and the SW271 comes complete with a
HotKey Puck for accessing the on- screen menu. The SW271 retails at £1067 and the price includes a detachable monitor shade and a height adjustable pivot stand. Check the full test of the SW271 in this issue’s First Tests.
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