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Safe in rain or snow Lacie’s tiny drive is rugged and fast
If you want a superfast, large-capacity, solidly built drive, then meet the Lacie Rugged SSD Pro5. With Thunderbolt 5 technology hitting read/write speeds of up to 6700 and 5300MB/s, this palm-sized powerhouse can chew through 8K video edits or store thousands of Raw files without breaking a sweat. It’s also IP68-rated, meaning it shrugs off dust, drops, downpours and Christmas snowstorms like a pro. The Pro5 keeps your data safe and your workflow flying. It comes in sizes up to 4TB – which costs £799. It also comes with Rescue Data Recovery Services, Toolkit backup software and a two-month membership to Adobe Creative Cloud.
Bound-in beauty Saal Digital elevates the art of storytelling
For those who value presentation as much as the images themselves, Saal Digital’s Professional Line photo books offer a truly premium experience. Handcrafted in Europe
using the finest materials, each book combines timeless elegance with modern precision. Choose from linen, leatherette or striking acrylic glass covers, paired with Fujifilm
Crystal Archive HD Album paper and layflat binding for seamless panoramic spreads. Optional extras like XT thick pages and premium gift boxes add further refinement.
Give the gift of time Get your images organised with Excire
AI-powered Excire Foto 2025 helps photographers cut down the time in front of their computers by bringing order to digital photo libraries, making browsing, sorting and selecting faster and smarter. If you have thousands of files buried in your hard drives, unlabelled and unorganised, finding a particular image can turn into a frustrating search. Thankfully, Excire Foto is a stand-alone AI-powered software designed specifically to streamline your photo organisation. By leveraging advanced machine learning, Excire Foto intelligently analyses, tags and sorts your images automatically – all for just £199.
Colour perfection isn’t luck, it’s down to having the right tools like Datacolor’s £299 Lightcolor Meter. The Lightcolor Meter measures exposure, colour temperature and green-magenta shifts with built-in Rosco, Lee and Profoto gel libraries, ensuring flawless consistency across any light source. Whether you’re balancing flash with daylight, matching LED panels or correcting mixed sources, it gives instant, data-driven feedback with no guesswork required – and it saves hours in the edit. Hues of the world Datacolor brings full control of your colours
Sigma’s 17-40mm f/1.8 DC Art zoom for APS-C mirrorless cameras builds on the legendary 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM Art – the world’s first f/1.8 zoom lens. This £779 next-generation optic is built for mirrorless, with improved optical performance but also a wider focal length range, while reducing its weight by almost a third. The lens is ideal for low-light environments such as indoor and nighttime scenes, as well as creating smooth bokeh. Sigma sets the standard The fast zoom for crop-sensor cameras
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