Photography News Issue 58

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A feast fromFujifilm

Really portable and lightweight – it weighs just 280g – the Fujifilm XF10 is an APS-C format compact camera ideal to take around with you everywhere you go. Its resolution of 24.2-mgapixels and fixed 18.5mm f/2.8 lens are capable of great image quality, with the option of Fujifilm’s Film Simulation modes and Advanced Filter modes to personalise your shots. The XF10 is available in black or champagne gold and retails at £449. The Fujifilm-X lens system is already extensive but where it could be accused of lacking was in the region of fast telephoto lenses. That will change in October with the arrival of the Fujifilm XF200mm f/2 R LM OIS WR which will be sold as a kit with a XF1.4x TC F2 WR teleconverter. The lens gives a 305mm focal length in the 35mm format and becomes a 427mm f/2.8 with the teleconverter in position. The lens boasts a 19 elements in 14 groups construction and that includes one super ED lens element and two ED elements to combat chromatic aberration. A lightweight focusing lens group and the use of a linear motor ensures fast AF. Focusing itself is silent and very accurate while features like Focus Preset and Focus Range Selector promote easy handling. The integral stabiliser of this lens has a 5EV benefit.

Above The FujifilmXF10 boasts a 24.2-megapixel resolution and weighs a mere 280g. Below News lens arrival: the XF200mm f/2.

The XF200mm f/2 with 1.4x converter will retail for £5399. Fujifilm’s X-system lens development road map also has new additions so, in the future, we’ll be seeing the XF16mm f/2.8 R WR, the XF16-80mm f/4 R OIS WR and XF33mm f/1. The XF16mm f/2.8 (24mm in 35mm format) complements the already available 23mm f/2, 35mm f/2 and 50mm

f/2, while the XF16-80mm f/4 (24- 122mm in the 35mm format) offers great versatility. The fast speed and focal length (50mm in the 35mm format) of the XF33mm f/1 make it ideal for general photography when the light levels drop. Finally, such is the ever increasing demand for its APS-C and medium- format mirrorless cameras that Fujifilm is boosting its production

capacity for its interchangeable lenses by 70% by 2020, when all the new facilities at its Taiwa factory in Japan go fully operational. The current line-up of Fujifilm mirrorless camera lenses is 36 with more models in the company’s roadmap and sales expanding at about 20% per annum.

Fujifilm.eu

HundredHeroines

Hundred an international campaign launched by the Royal Photographic Society to highlight inspirational women in photography today and to celebrate the centenary year of women’s suffrage. “I come across so many amazing women in photography, and yet their voice is nowhere near as powerful as their male counterparts,” says Del Barrett, the RPS’s vice president. “We are working to ensure that there are no barriers in photography. Hundred Heroines is a major step towards this, raising public awareness of the excellent work being created by women globally.” The RPS wants your nominations for women you feel should be among the 100 and these need to be in by 30 September. A panel of judges, chaired by artist, photographer, and Society Fellow, Rut Blees Luxemburg (RCA), will then select the 100 women worldwide whose work they feel marks them as a contemporary heroine. The final 100 will be announced on Heroines is

14 December, exactly 100 years to the day that British women first voted in a general election. To make your nominations, go to the web address (right) or

on Instagram using the project handle @RPS100Heroines and a comment on your nominee.

rps.org/100-heroines