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Buy LeeFilters direct The new Lee Direct service offers UK photographers a delivery-to- the-front-door service. Photographers in the UK can
it easy for customers to buy direct, if that’s their preference,” says Paul Mason, Lee Filters’ managing director. Spend over £100 and shipping is free, and there is nominimum order quantity; delivery takes between one and three days. The newwebsite is said to give a painless and speedy buying experience with intuitive log-in, checkout process and shipment tracking. If technical or product advice is needed, Lee’s UK-based support is on hand to help.
Kase goes larger Kase’s Wolverine Magnetic Circular filter system offers a fast-to-use and lightweight alternative to photographers keen to enjoy filters but without wishing to burden themselves with a creative holder- based outfit
now order Lee Filters direct from the company, if you can’t easily get to a dealer on Lee’s UK dealer network.A range of 100 products will be available including adapter rings, holders, polarisers and systemkits. “We live in a world where we aremore andmore e-commerce orientated, so Lee is reacting to this growing trend and hasmade
PN tested Kase’s Wolverine Magnetic Circular filter system in the last issue and at that time the two sizes available were 77mm and 82mm. Kase has now added a 95mm option. Two 95mm kits are available; the entry level kit costs £285 and comprises an ND8, ND64, polariser, magnetic adapter ring and carry pouch, plus a free lens cap. The pro kit costs £395 and features the same products with the addition of an ND1000 filter. Wolverine Magnetic Circular filters are made from the same
toughened, colour neutral pro glass as Kase square filters and are easy to clean too. A 0.9 soft neutral density graduate filter has recently been added to the Kase range and this filter with an 77mm adaptor ring is £85, and £90 for the 82mm options. The idea of this circular system is that you buy the set to match the largest filter thread in your lens collection and use step rings for lenses with different size filter threads. Screw the adapter on to the lens and the filters in their magnetic
frames are simply held in place by magnetism so no chance of cross threading when adding the filters to the adapter rings. The systemmakes using filters fast and if you prefer, you can safely stack them to save even more space when travelling. The entry level and pro kits are great starting points and in time you could add adapter rings for each of your lenses – they cost from £10.55 – and for each lens a magnetic lens cap, which cost from £19. kasefilters.com
Affinity kicks on Affinity’s three apps, Designer, Photo and Publisher, have all been updated to v1.8. Owners of all three apps can use Serif ’s single file format and switch between
Nik adds five classics Nik Collection 2.5 by DxO features five classic colour films and compatibility withAffinity Photo
panorama stitching, batch processing and focus stacking. There’s now support for Nik Collection by DXO v2.5, a popular set of photo-editing plug-ins. Affinity v1.8 apps are available as one-off purchases and existing users can download the updated apps for free. The desktop versions cost £48.99 each (Mac OS and Windows) and the iPad options of Designer and Photo cost £19.99 each. affinity.serif.com
Nik Collection 2.5 by DxO is now available for Windows and Mac. In the last update ten new films were added to Silver Efex Pro 2, now it’s the turn for Color Efex Pro 4 with five classic colour films being added to the collection including Agfa Precisa CT 100, Fujifilm FP-100C and Lomography Redscale 400. With the software’s U Point technology it is easy
to apply effects and adjust images locally to fine-tune your shots. The latest update is also good news for Affinity Photo users because the latest Nik collection is fully compatible with the latest v1.8 of that software. The Nik Collection 2.5 by DxO suite costs £125 (£69 for existing Nik Collection 2018 by DxO users) and
each app seamlessly with StudioLink technology.
Affinity Photo is a powerful editing software starting from Raw development with features such as noise reduction, pro lens corrections and the usual array of image editing tools and into features such as HDR Merge,
it is a free upgrade for owners of Nik Collection 2 by DxO. shop.dxo.com/en
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