Photography News issue 19

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NEWS INBRIEF NOMORE NOISE Macphun has released a new app, Noiseless, which promises to eliminate pixelated and grainy patterns with just one click. The app is currently free as a preview version, but there are plans to release a standard version (17.99) and a pro version (£49.99). www.macphun.com/ noiseless TRUE COLOURS NEC has improved its already award-winning MultiSync PA desktop display series to include SpectraView II calibration software for an even more accurate easy-to-use interface of SpectraView II means its simple to adjust even more complex calibration settings. colorconfidence.com ILLUM-INATING TOKYO Tokyo may not be on our doorstep, but what’s happening over there in camp Lytro is almost worth the flight. The very first light field imaging studio has been launched, showcasing living pictures and 3D images in a display of shots taken using the Illum. www.lytro.com Snapseed 2.0 is available to iOS and Android users, and the latest version brings advanced photo editing including working non- destructively. For more details go to Apple iTunes or play.google. com. LATEST SNAPSEED colour preview on your monitor. The v2.2 for the Panasonic GH4 to enhance video performance will be available from the end of April. It also enables a top speed of 1/16,000sec with the electronic shutter. www.panasonic.co.uk PN ISSUE 20 PN issue 20 will be available from 18 May. And don’t forget you can subscribe to get your copy delivered direct to your door; go to the website to find out how. absolutephoto.com PANASONIC UPDATE Updated firmware

Sony’s top-end compacts

You could see your work exhibited at London’s Menier Gallery and also be £6000 richer - that’s if you win in this year’s ArtGemini Prize competition. Entries are now open and it’s an open theme so you can be as creative as you like with your photo submissions or you can try your hand at the social or environmental documentary category. There’s plenty of time to get together your entry as the competition closes on 7 July. Get your competitionon

to adjust settings like manual focusing or step zoom. There’s also an inbuilt electronic viewfinder and both the HX90 and WX500 feature a 180° tilt LCD. The autofocus system is worth highlighting. Inherited from the A7 series, it’s pretty impressive and it has been improved to make it even quicker and more accurate. Each model has Wi-Fi and NFC, and the HX500 benefits from GPS. Both new models will be available as of early summer.

It’s no coincidence that just as the summer and the holiday season approach Sony unveils its most powerful compacts to date. Both the HX90 and the WX500 are big on zoom power, each fitted with a 30x zoom Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T lens and they’re equipped with a back-illuminated Exmor R CMOS sensor that’ll serve up 18.2-megapixel shots. If you shoot with a CSC or DSLR, the HX90 will feel familiar as Sony has kitted it out with a control ring that you can set

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

π To find out more, go to www.artgeminiprize.com.

Newcomp on the block

To bag the top prize, your images will have to impress the likes of Magnum photographer Mark Power and the arts editor of the Financial Times , Emma Bowkett. An exhibition will be curated from the winners and will be shown at the next Guernsey Photography Festival in September..

to all photographers and there are no themes or categories, blowing the competition wide open for anyone and everyone to have a go. All you need to do is submit between 15 and 20 pictures from a body of work and send off your fee of £15 per project, before the closing date of 15 June 2015.

If you ever needed motivation to challenge yourself to improve your photography, then £5000 should be enough to tempt you. The Guernsey Photography Festival and Raven Russia have come together to launch an inaugural international photo comp with a top prize of £5000. It’s open

π To find out more, go to www.guernseyphotographyfestival.com.

And thewinner is...

Hähnel clean up

Hähnel has launched an 8-in-1 camera cleaning kit and it’s in the shops now for £29.99. The kit includes a lens cleaning pen, air blower, lens cleaner solution and lint-free cotton swabs. The kit suits cameras but also other optics devices like spotting scopes and camcorders too.

ABOVE Durdle Door Starburst by Ollie Taylor. ABOVE RIGHT Drawn, Scotland by Ford Buchanan.

the perfect photo here, but it was early on a winter’s day that he captured what would turn out to be the winning shot. Along with the kudos of winning, Ollie has also bagged himself a trip to northern Finland, which will include a stay in a glass igloo and a log cabin as well as an excursion to Lemmenjoki National Park to explore the wilderness.

After sifting through more than 21,000 entries, judges including writer and broadcaster Tom Dyckhoff and Blipfoto founder Joe Tree have agreed on a winner for this year’s VELUX Lovers of Light photo competition, established to encourage photographers to creatively capture light. Durdle Door Starburst (above) earned landscape photographer Ollie Taylor the winner’s crown. Ollie had returned time and time again to try and score

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

π To find out more, go to www.hahnel.ie.

Photography News | Issue 19