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Win a Philips 4KUltra HD LCD 40inmonitor worth £600
Get a£200 bonus from Olympus
Photography News and our sister magazine Professional Photo are delighted to bring one lucky reader the chance to own this stunning, richly featured Philips 40in monitor in this free, easy to enter prize competition. The new Philips
10-bit so you have the potential for over 1.07 billion colours. Also, Philip’s SmartImage technology optimises the screen output to whatever you’re doing, so there is
photo mode alongside game and movie settings. More headline features include MultiView 4K, so you can have four systems each showing in HD on
Win a Philips 40in monitor story and answer this simple question. What is the 4K resolution of the Philips BDM4037UW?
one screen using Picture- by-Picture (PbP) mode; or have Picture-in-Picture mode (PiP) to compare pictures from two sources, or watch TV from your set-top box while you are editing your shots. To be inwith a chance of winning this superbPhilips monitor, all you have to do is visit photographynews. co.uk/win, click on the
1) 1280x720 2) 1920x1080 3) 3840x2160
BDM4037UW has a host of great features ideal for today’s photographer. The 40in curved screen gives an immersive experience and features Philip’s UltraClear 4K UHD resolution (3840x2160) to show your high resolution pictures in glorious detail – and it’s
The new Sigma 16mm f/1.4 DC DN Contemporary has a guide price of £449 and will be available in Sony E and Micro Four Thirds fittings. It is a dust- and splash-proof wide-angle lens with a 16 elements (including several exotic glass lenses) in 13 groups construction. The fast aperture adds to the lens’s appeal, while its AF system (which uses a stepping motor for smooth focusing) makes it ideal for shooting video as well as still photography. Sigma’s latest Buy a selected Olympus product between now and Monday, 15 January 2018 from a qualifying retailer, and you can claim a cashback bonus of up to £200. Two OM-D cameras, the E-M1 Mark II and E-M5 Mark II have cash bonuses of £200 and £85 respectively. Six lenses are also in the bonus scheme. There are the 9-18mm f/4-5.6 (£85 cashback), 12mm f/2 (£85), 25mm f/1.8 (£40), 60mm f/2.8 Macro (£65), 75mm f/1.8 (£85) and 75-300mm f/4.8- 6.7 II (£85). Bonus amounts may be combined if buying more than one item. See the website for terms and conditions, and claims must be made by Thursday, 15 February 2018. bonus.olympus.eu
The closing date is 11.59pm, Sunday, 14 January 2018. To read more about the new Philips BDM4037UW, please visit bit.ly/2iWkCbT or check out the review in this issue of Photography News .
Olympus’s fast duo TERMS & CONDITIONS: You must be a UK resident, and aged 16 or over. Entry is restricted to one entry per email address and closes at 11.59pm, Sunday, 14 January 2018. This is a joint promotion with Photography News and Professional Photo and only one prize is available. The prize must be taken as offered, and cannot be exchanged for an alternative. In the event the prize cannot be supplied, no liability will attach to Bright Publishing. Employees of Bright, Philips and their immediate family and agents may not enter. Entries not in accordance with these rules will be disqualified; by entering, competitors will be deemed to have agreed to these rules. The winner will be notified within seven days of the closing date, andmust respond within seven days of being notified, otherwise another winner will be chosen.
Olympus’sM.ZUIKOPRO family has gained two super-fast members: the ED 17mm f/1.2 and ED45mm f/1.2. As you would expect from such fast aperture lenses in thePRO family, mechanical and optical construction are first-rate. The 45mm f/1.2 (90mm focal length in 35mm format) is a short telephoto featuring 14 elements in ten groups,withsixspecialglasselements to give high performance at the wider apertures and minimise aberrations such as out-of-focus colour bleeding. The 17mm f/1.2 (34mm in 35mm format equivalent) features
15 elements in 11 groups with seven special glass elements to compensate for chromatic aberration, colour bleeding and distortion. Both lenses feature ZCoatingNano technology to ensure clean images free of ghosting and flare, and have nine blade diaphragms to help deliver superb, smooth looking bokeh effects. The 17mm f/1.2 will be available from March next year and is priced at £1299.99, while the 45mm f/1.2 is available from this November and costs £1199.99.
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Claimup to £190 with Fujifilm
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Manfrotto has upgraded its popular range of Befree tripods. The Befree Advanced collection starts with two versions of one aluminium model, with carbon-fibre versions available from spring next year. The Befree Advanced Aluminium Travel is available in two leg lock options, QPL travel lever and M-lock twist grip, so just pick the type that you prefer to use. Stability and leg
cost £174.95 each and come complete with the new 494 Centre ball head. The head features a new 200PL-PRO plate that is compatible with Manfrotto RC2 as well as with (most) Arca-Swiss mounting plates. The Befree Advanced
Buy a Fujifilm X-series camera or lens from a qualifying retailer before Sunday, 15 January 2018, and you qualify for cashback of up to £190. A long list of cameras, kits and lenses are featured in this promotion and a full list, as well as participating retailers and terms and conditions, are at the website address, right. But as an example, buy an X-Pro2 body or the X-Pro2 kit with the 23mm f/2, and you can claim £190
will accept a maximum payload of 8kg, features angle selectors and extends to a very useful 150cm – and you get all this with a tripod weighing in at just 1.5kg and closes down to 40cm. leg
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cashback. Among the selected 15 lenses, you can save £145 off the 100-400mm f/4-5.6 and £95 off the 56mm f/1.2.
security rate highly in both so it is just a matter personal preferance. Both tripods are four leg sectoions,
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