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Photography News | Issue 34 | absolutephoto.com
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Fujifilm’s latest printer lets you create instant credit card sized prints fromyour smartphone as well as compatible Fujifilm cameras. The instax SHARE Smartphone Printer SP-2 costs £164.99 which includes a ten-shot pack of instax film and will be available from the end of August. It is a portable unit and is powered by a rechargeable battery so it’s ideal for social gatherings to share pictures. The free instax SHARE app has also been updated with new filters and templates. Instant fun fromFuji
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WD improveworkflow The Western Digital My Passport Wireless Pro WiFi is available in sizes up to 3TB and has a built-in SD card reader and an USB 2.0 port. Prices start from £189.99. For home storage WD has the My Cloud Pro series NAS drives. With capacities up to 32TB, this series of hard drives is optimised to import from cameras. Prices start from £379.99 and go to £1899.99. wdc.com Capture updated Phase One has introduced the second edition of Media Pro SE. For Mac andWindows, this software supports photo and video files fromover 100 cameras and is built tomanage large, high-quality files in photo libraries. It costs €189. phaseone.com ColorMunki cash back Buy a X-Rite ColorMunki Display calibrator before 1 September 2016 and you can claim £25 cashback. xritecashback.com
The Sigma sd Quattro will be on sale from July at a price of £799.99. Buy it with the Sigma 30mm f/1.4 DC HSMArt lens for £999.99. The sd Quattro is a 30-megapixel APS-C format camera based on the Foveon X3 direct image sensor that records all colours of light at each pixel site. Processing is handled by Sigma’s Dual TRUE III engine that can deal with the large high-resolution files at high speed. This helps the camera to shoot at 3.7fps for 12 consecutive full-size 14-bit Raws. It features the new Super-Fine Detail exposure mode where the camera (mounted on a stable tripod) takes seven individual exposures and creates an X3I Raw file and that can processed in Sigma’s Photo Pro software for very low-noise, wide dynamic range images. The body features a high-resolution EVF and it is dust and splash- proof and there’s a dust protector and additional sealing on the lens mount to prevent debris getting inside the camera body. Sigmahas also introducedanewflashgun, theEF-630. This is priced at £399.99 and there is an optional Flash USB Dock FD-11 available at £59.99 – this accessory is used to update the flashgun’s firmware. It has a quoted Guide Number of 63 (ISO 100 in metres), high-speed sync (depending on the camera model) and rear-curtain sync. Latest Sigma
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Kenro add lights
Kenro has added four NanGuang LED lights to its product line-up. There are two light panels, the CN-T340 and the CN-T504, selling for £209.94 and £263.94 respectively. Both have 5600K output, LED life of 50,000 hours and stepless dimmer control. The T340 has 340 LEDs and the larger T504 has 504 LEDs so offers more output. The two other lights are fresnel units. The compact CN-20FC can be used on-camera or on a tripod and features adjustable colour temperature, spotlight adjustment from 15-55° and built-in barn doors. It runs off six AA batteries and costs £71.94. The LED Fresnel Light CN-30F is designed for studio use. It focuses light to a narrow to wide beam (12-35°) and costs £239.94.
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